Category: Hot Takes

Opinions about what is going on in Hong Kong and around the world

America Now

Published November 7, 2012 by dallasksanders

I am a center right conservative or something I like to call a Canadian Conservative. It means I feel that government should help businesses create jobs and…

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David Rakoff

Published August 18, 2012 by dallasksanders

While wandering around Mong Kong I was listening to Fresh Air and this collection of interviews with David Rakoff, who passed away. He was a…

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Published August 17, 2012 by dallasksanders

Elizabeth Bishop Read by David Rakoff on Fresh Air http://www.npr.org/2012/08/10/158567391/david-rakoff-there-is-no-answer-as-to-why-me

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My Letter To Via Rail

Published August 7, 2012 by dallasksanders

My Letter To Via Rail

I would like to share my experience on Via Rail this past weekend. I got up at 6 am on Friday morning to take the…

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Published July 17, 2012 by dallasksanders

Tom Junod, Esquire writing about Mr. Rogers. THE best profile I have ever read. http://www.thedqtimes.com/pages/castpages/other/fredrogerscanyousayheropg1.htm

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On Writing

Published July 17, 2012 by dallasksanders

“Writing is lonely, it is just you and a typewriter/computer/pen and paper and that is it. It is HARD” – Dan Lebatard, sports columnist for…

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Published July 16, 2012 by dallasksanders

Joan Didion, Vogue, June 1961

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Published July 8, 2012 by dallasksanders

It’s still one of my favourite songs: Tales by RIP Slyme

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Published June 10, 2012 by dallasksanders

Wen Jiabao, China’s Retiring Prime Minister. March 2012

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June 4, 1989

Published June 5, 2012 by dallasksanders

Victoria Park, Hong Kong, June 4, 2012 I was only 17. I had just finished my first year of high school. My understanding of the…

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Published June 4, 2012 by dallasksanders

Zhao Ziyang, May 19 1989, speaking to the students in Tiananmen Square

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Published May 27, 2012 by dallasksanders

John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet

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Published May 20, 2012 by dallasksanders

Yukio Mishima

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Published May 19, 2012 by dallasksanders

Dan Savage, Sex Advice Columnist.

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Diversity is a strength

Published April 7, 2012 by dallasksanders

There is a street here in Penang nicknamed the “street of harmony.” It is where the oldest Baptist Church, one of the oldest Taoist Temples…

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Friday Night Lights

Published March 29, 2012 by dallasksanders

I have recently finished one of the best TV Shows that has ever been done. It has been a book, by H.G. Bissinger, a movie…

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Published March 28, 2012 by dallasksanders

Old school fire alarm from the early 1900’s (Taken with instagram)

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Published March 25, 2012 by dallasksanders

D. Young (via decembrist)

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Published March 23, 2012 by dallasksanders

Mike Voelkner, Grantham High School basketball coach 1989 – 1992

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Published March 14, 2012 by dallasksanders

Thomas Friedman, March 13, 2012 (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/opinion/friedman-capitalism-version-2012.html?_r=1&hp)

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