Slice and Dice - the Chinese way

What the hell is going on in China? I have read numerous stories lately about some nutjob slicing and/or stabbing people to death. Most seem to be school kids on campus. Usually the attacker is male. I know, in a country of 1.4 billion people, 7 or 8 attacks like these are probably within a normal range of occurrence but what triggers it? Video games? Kung Pow chicken? Guess what? It is illegal for civilians to own guns in China! All they have left is axes and machetes. That would be a downside for those in the U.S. who think we should ban guns. Everyone would resort to switchblades and samurai swords. Experienced knife-throwers would be the new snipers. 7-11 robberies would be interesting since a ball bat swung by the clerk could be very effective against a knife. Party revelers would probably be less inclined to throw their knives and hatchets in the air, since they would return to earth a lot closer to them than the bullets they were firing before the gun ban.

A Chinese Google?

I read today that Google is thinking about pulling their presence from China due to China's unwillingness to stop censuring web searches. Go, Google! It's about time someone told China to kiss their ass. So many nations and businesses are falling all over China's huge population of tech-hungry newcomers to the digital age. Most all are in it for the money. They are willing to overlook the fact that China is COMMUNIST! China's government has not done one thing toward improving their human rights record and suppresses anyone or anything that threatens to expose how stupid it is to let a bunch of old school Commies run their lives. While China is emerging as a key player in the world's economy, it is only because the rest of us are willing, via Walmart and others, to buy the crappy stuff China exports. We don't have a whole lot of choice either. The profit-mongers in our country control what shows up in stores, not the consumer. I am willing to bet that if 51% of the Walmart shareholders showed up at the annual stock meeting and demanded that they get products from somewhere else, those products would come from somewhere else. The dollar talks louder than ethics these days and it's a damn shame.