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With apologies to Simon and Garfunkel: "Where have you gone, Chairman Mao, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you."
They rioted in the streets of Beijing on Friday. It was just the like the old days of the Cultural Revolution. Except this time the rioters weren't waving Mao's "Little Red Book."
No, they were shouting insults -- and chunking eggs -- at an Apple store. Which wouldn't open its doors because it had run out of new iPhone 4S's to sell.
-- Los Angeles Times
The world really is becoming one. It's not necessarily a perfect world. It's a world of the rich and the middle-classy and, of course, the poor. But I suppose it's progress in some meaningful sense: more people are better off.
They rioted in the streets of Beijing on Friday. It was just the like the old days of the Cultural Revolution. Except this time the rioters weren't waving Mao's "Little Red Book."
No, they were shouting insults -- and chunking eggs -- at an Apple store. Which wouldn't open its doors because it had run out of new iPhone 4S's to sell.
-- Los Angeles Times
The world really is becoming one. It's not necessarily a perfect world. It's a world of the rich and the middle-classy and, of course, the poor. But I suppose it's progress in some meaningful sense: more people are better off.
