Archive for September, 2008
So they knew about the milk all along. From the NY Times:
One of China’s biggest dairy producers received consumer complaints about its baby milk formula as early as December 2007 — much earlier than previously thought and nine months before the producer ordered a nationwide recall because of concerns that the formula had been adulterated [...]
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Tags: beijing, china, controversy, media, olympics, politics
Apparently someone named Jimmy Choi used to live in my building. It’s unclear which apartment he lived in because his gas bill never specifies an apartment. So someone at the post offices scrawls my apartment number on the envelope and it ends up in my mailbox month after month. And every month I write on [...]
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Tags: chinese, clinton hill, irksome, korean
50,000 babies are sick on milk.
That’s not even the worst of it. We lost David Foster Wallace. The economy’s in the shitter. LIRR employees are cheating the system. 53 dead in Pakistan. A sizable chunk of voters still think Obama has ties to Islam. I just broke a glass.
It’s hard to be optimistic on Monday morning when things seem rather [...]
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Tags: china, irksome, malaise, politics
