Morjes!

Welcome to my blog. I write about fitting in, sticking out, and missing the motherland as a serial foreigner.

May 20th, outsourced

Welcome to Pyongyang, North Korea.

If you've ever seen those smarmy high fructose corn syrup commercials, this SNL spoof will be really funny to you.

Just how Mormon is Jon Huntsman? Everyone's dying to know. Too bad it really IS "tough to define."

But here's a look at Huntsman compared to Romney re: Mormonism, anyway. (And then an interesting follow-up.)

Dear goodness, this made me laugh.

Here's an entry from The Economist's Gulliver blog about how airline passengers have taken some safety measures into their own hands since 9/11.

The headline doesn't really make sense, and the principle described in the article makes even less: Suicide Punishable Under UAE Law. Huh? Because for sure what a person who has tried to commit suicide but failed needs is to be prosecuted as a criminal. That will show them!

The first image in this collection of photos from the Southeastern USA flooding is mesmerizing. I keep thinking about how it came to be. When did they build the levy? How nervous are they that it will break? How do you even do that?

Library woes

Sometimes, exercising willpower can backfire