The one that requires air travel.

Candidate for Most Important Article to Read in the First Quarter of 2006 is George Monbiot's We Are All Killers Until We Stop Flying (http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=56&ItemID=9814).

The -Duh- in the title comes partly from my remembering that little child in the 50s who used to fold out a bed from a sofa in some tv ad which noted: -So easy, even a child can do it!- That child, as I recall, was about twice as old as Papi's morceau.

In red silk/satin brocade and mock Manchu queue, Marcel parades past deer-horns, in their velvet stage, dried lizards, neatly spread on thin bamboo sticks, dried toads, shark's tails, smelly herbs, strangely colored liquids, and wafer-thin medicines.

First stop for Marcel’s Scooter Shuttle is the yellow fire hydrant, almost always. “Big crowd today, three grasshoppers and a dozen ants,” I tell him, Conductor Marcello.

He changes his name daily like the kid in A Thousand Clowns. Or I do.

All the streets around Raymond. J. Fisher Middle School were deserted when home schooler Marcello and I went for a walk today around High Noon. We both did double takes 'cause it's usually bubbling over with noise there at that time, and the kids were all off the day before-for Prez Day.

-The new lobbying reform bandwagon circling Washington is like those rubber bracelets made popular by Lance Armstrong — soon everybody made one with their own meaning and by the end none of them meant anything.— Jeremy Scahill, not drawing the obvious parallel –underscored in -Scahill Scam Syndrome— with the works of activists.

Once upon a time, there were no rivers and lakes on earth, but only the Eastern Sea, in which lived four dragons: the Long Dragon, the Yellow Dragon, the Black Dragon and the Pearl Dragon.

-A thousand new cars hit Beijing's streets every day. By 2020 China will have 140 million private cars, more even than the United States.- - BBC report, touching upon just one reason why our demands for -assimilation- will lead to -annihilation–soon.

For every 100 U.S. citizens who know about our WWII Japanese Internment Camps on these shores, there's "maybe" one who knows something significant about our 19th century Chinese Exclusion Act. Too bad-for all of us. Oooo on you, maybe.

I'm not just regurgitating another scandalous episode in our sordid history here.

At the Chinese New Year celebration in San Francisco, Iris Chang spoke to me in a dream.

With noisemakers blaring and dragons writhing serpentinely, she spoke of the memorization and mastery of Chinese classics which served as a safe outlet for the subjugated Han people of the Qing Dynasty. As harmless, hissing children’s smoke bombs rolled down the steep inclines of Chinatown, Iris whispered to me about the most talented, ambitious young men diverting their youthful energies into activities which would perpetuate the reign of the rulers from Manchuria. Permitted pursuits.

An Iranian newspaper, Hamshahri, is holding a Holocaust cartoon contest, to retaliate against the publication of images of the Prophet Muhammad which have served as a catalyst for mucho violence worldwide.

I don’t draw well, so I spoke to the Tehran publication’s Graphics Editor Farid Mortazavi about whether or not he’d accept a verbal contribution. He enthusiastically encouraged me to participate, and so below you’ll find my Top Ten.

For a silly article this piece runs quite deep. Let's call a spade a Diamond when it shines, ok? (Pause)

Comedy is deemed -inferior to tragedy,- according to Tom (-Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas-) Robbins-because there's a social prevalence of narcissistic pathology.