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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

You Wanna Know Who Has The Power In China?



The Commissioner of Putting In Manholes, that's who.





Even the lawns aren't safe...


(For the record, I was going to be more gender-neutral, but "The Commissioner of Putting In Sewer-Access Portals" wasn't nearly as funny.)

IN OTHER NEWS:

Literally 'in other news,' for once. I captured this headline and lead photo from a story on the ChinaDaily.cn web site. In case you can't read the headline, it says:

"Beijing tries to dispel rain for Olympic opening ceremony"



"You feelin' lucky, humidity?"