An AKIC Sunday.

I am still trying to work out the bugs at www.akic.wuxiguide.net.  Bear with me as I slowly but surely get the new site to look like I want it to.  If I could get it to somehow look like Seablogger  I would be happy.

It is my one day off this week because yesterday I went on the field trip.  You can go to my other blog to see photos and videos I took of the trip.  Today, I will do what the wife wants me to do.  The King of Wuxi also wants me to help him move rocks at the new apartment.  I will determine what I will be doing as soon as the wife returns from the doctor's checkup she had an appointment for this morning.  With a little luck, I can satisfy both parties.

The U.S. presidential election seems to be taking a lull as can be expected given how long the process has become.  Hilary has not given up.  Obama is still in the lead.  McCain is lying low but is leading both the Democrat candidates in polls.  Seablogger is now taking the Democrats' lost in the general election for granted.  I hope he is right as he compares Obama to George McGovern.  I think that a trouncing of Obama in the general election comparable to McGovern's humbling in '72 would be proof to me that America would be truly post-racialist (America is post-racist.  However, the lingering after-effects of stamping out racism has left a racialist America that wants so hard to not be racist).  If a black man and a white man with the same ideology get the same number of votes in an election it would show that the populace is not racist.  But of course the world would probably not see it that way.  So often, doing the right thing means not following world opinion.

Speaking of world opinion, the British I have talked to, assume Obama will win.  One American here, in Wuxi, who claims to be a Republican, says that Obama is better on fiscal policy.  But then people out here in Wuxi tend to be anti-American.  I remember how Bush's victory in 2004 stunned them all.

Here is a very good photo essay about the Olympic torch relay in San Francisco.  So many people have beefs with China.