I do believe this sentiment is true, and you're right -- a perfect choice for this week. It doesn't have the dry, flippant "feel" of something that Scott Adams would have said, though!
P.S. Obviously, though, he did. (Er, not that I doubted you.) It seems to have come from a letter written to "his Internet fans."
A leading presenter on China Central Television's English-language channel has revealed himself to be a xenophobic hate-monger. WHY does he still have a job? Lobby for his dismissal - by any and all means.
Days Ai Weiwei was detained
80
With ironic, sinister symmetry, the celebrity artist/activist was incarcerated on the same day that my friend Wu Yuren was finally released from 10 months' detention.
Now, like Wu, he's been released on extremely restrictive 'bail' terms - but could face re-arrest at any moment. He was detained incommunicado from April 3rd to June 22nd 2011.
Days Wu Yuren was in prison
307
"Released on parole" after 10 months; "parole" lifted another year later. The original charges against him were apparently dropped without his trial ever being formally concluded.
Froog is an escaped lawyer - but there is no need for alarm; he is only a danger to himself, not to the general public. An eternal wanderer, he now lives in an exotic city somewhere in the 'Third World' *, where he is held prisoner by an unfinished novel (or, more precisely, an unstarted novel). He spends a lot of time running, writing, taking photographs, and falling in love with women who fail to appreciate him. He also spends a lot of time in bars.
[* OK, I'll come clean: I've been living in Beijing since summer '02.]
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Heavens, is this Scott Adams the Dilbert guy?
I do believe this sentiment is true, and you're right -- a perfect choice for this week. It doesn't have the dry, flippant "feel" of something that Scott Adams would have said, though!
P.S. Obviously, though, he did. (Er, not that I doubted you.) It seems to have come from a letter written to "his Internet fans."
Aw, now I feel bad about having sent you off on another 10 minutes of digging around on the Net just because I provided an inadequate attribution.
Thanks for that link, JES.
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