The Guardian: In what may rank as one of the least romantic wedding nights in history, a Chinese couple reportedly spent their first night of marital bliss transcribing the Communist party’s 17,000-word constitution as part of a campaign designed to shore up support for President Xi Jinping’s administration.
Photographs posted on social media showed the newlyweds – both civil servants from the eastern province of Jiangxi – perching next to a balloon-covered double bed as they copied out parts of the 11-chapter text.
Li Yunpeng and his bride, Chen Xuanchi, saw the task as a way of creating “beautiful memories” of their wedding night, their employer, the Nanchang railway bureau, wrote in an online message. (more)
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Was it good for you?
Oh, how wonderfully indoctrinating.
That is hot!
Pajama boy and pajama girl, Chinese style. They will make model enforcers of state whim on their rise to mandarin heaven.
No no - Not hot.
AprilApple, indeed!
Wanting to live is a powerful motivation. Equally motivating is hoping to live well, or at least slightly better than those forced into slave labor.
If living well is available only through appeasing the government that owns you, you do what you must.
The article serves as a reminder of the American idea that man's freedom descends from God, not from government; and that we need to be ever vigilant in protecting our freedoms.
He's not even using a brush. There I was thinking man I bet you get really good at those characters, and I mean really good, so the brush tip dances around, stepping, sliding, turning, flicking, splashing, and the characaters take a life of thier own by doing it so much they become automatic and by skipping everything between concept and brushstroke. And turns out the guy's using a pen and there goes all that pure art. Ugh. May as well type it. No appreciation for calligraphy whatsoever you can tell by the pen.
Today I saw film clip (on the 13 minutes of Hillary lying) of Bill Clinton signing a law. He's left-handed!
I did not know that.
[I did know that he's fond of NYT crossword puzzles. It was thing in NYT crossword forum. They were especially fond of him for closing his puzzles and for solving them in ink without any scratchouts. They value that. But that's irrelevant to this.]
And the thing that sticks out is how different Bill Clinton looks when he's signing a document from how Obama looks when he's signing.
I should dig up contrasting videos and edit them to show what I'm on about.
Becuse the contrast takes you back to the beginning of learning about writing and what your teachers and parents expect from you.
Bill Clinton scratches ahead of his hand then drags his hand over what he just wrote.
Obama curves his hand to hold his pen backward, curves his wrist, curves his entire arm to avoid dragging the side of his hand over what he just wrote.
Obama is like me, he didn't like having his hand blackened with graphite just by writing things when he learned to write.
Honestly, we all faced this same problem and arrived at different solutions. The simplest solution for left-handed writing is start at the opposite side and write backwards and pull away from the thing that you're writing. A savings of one clean hand and comfortable writing.
And that's not so ridiculous, for crying out loud, Egyptians did that for symmetry. Just pull away from what you are writing either right handed or left. That is the answer for proper balance. Try it, you'll agree. It's the most natural thing.
It surprised me when I saw Clinton do that. His is a very skillful left-handed writing. By contrast Obama appears spastic, just signing a document, takes the whole page to draw the O for his name and scratch the "bama" through it. I think any O-signing video will show it.
[obama signs] Ha ha ha They're all obnoxious. The very end here.
[clinton signs] 4 min eh. He's initialling. And he angles the document acutely. There is no hand movement across the page. He holds the pen naturally, not like a primate perplexed about chopsticks.
It's a thing.
This is what's wrong with the People's Paradise.
Nobody ever has any fun.
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