1. Taiwanese bride marries herself.
2. Victor Menaldo has a blog; he is the researcher behind the myth of the resource curse and "rainfall and democracy."
4. Who is the most important avant-garde filmmaker? After Warhol, Jonas Mekas, Stan Brekhage, Kenneth Anger, and Maya Deren top the NYT citation list.
5. Greatest Hungarian Iranologist.
The sketch "I married myself" from Jam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMQyZKS8yAI
Well heck, the Taiwanese woman who bemoaned the lack of men wouldn't have had to marry herself if she had spent the money on a flight to the United States, and gone to any sci-fi/D&D/WoW convention, Renaissance Faire or Civil War re-enactment: she would have been swarmed by eager men.
It is a stretch of imagination to call the current state of US affairs a "breakdown in democracy". That POV needs cynicism or paranoia in sufficient quantity.
While I don't see a breakdown, I do see attack on democracy:
1. Florida Supreme Court debacle.
2. Suppressing Military voting (2000 and present)
3. Acorn and similar voter fraud.
4. Black Panther voter intimidation and support from the Justice Dept.
Her name is "Chen Wei-yih"
@Peter:
Think a civil-war re-enacter matches the profile of a person likely to be open to the option of marrying a Taiwanese woman…..?
They're probably among the biggest customers of mail-order bride outfits.
It's funny how Civil War re-enactors are such a pathetic bunch of can't-get-sex nerds this side of a D&D convention. It's war, after all, that they're re-enacting. Consider how the NFL is basically a highly stylized version of war, and how NFL fans are the most ultra-Alpha, barroom-brawl-winning, nailing-supermodels-in-nightclubs group you'll find anywhere.
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