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Not sure how The Daily Show finds this stuff, but this is a pretty poignant sequence. Special thanks to Pop [and Sis] of Cha for the link:

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Jimmy Kimmel knows what Cup of Cha likes. He managed to combine his feud with Matt Damon, which I highlighted last week, with my love for celebrity sing alongs, which I discussed a while back. The result is here:

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Tired of the Olympics, snow, and the election? Here’s some good old fashioned fun.
This is a series of videos, the first of which I’ll post and the rest of which I’ll link to. I never knew that Jimmy Kimmel was funny, but if these are any indication, he’s absolutely hilarious.

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Most of my friends in the States, and indeed, most of the mainstream media outside of China, is under the false impression that news only trickles into the the Mainland. Historically this has been true, and there are still remnants around, but if you can read or understand English, as many young Chinese can, things [...]

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American Su Fei has a video up where she goes around asking Beijingers what they think about the American election, primarily the Obama-Hillary aspect. I should mention that I was planning to do this bit based on message boards a few weeks back–except the discussions about Obama had almost no participants and made little sense. [...]

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This American Life is probably the best podcast/radio show out there. This episode is one of the best of that select group. There have been some issues downloading the show in China, so since I was able to do it this week I’m sharing. If you want to donate to the show since it costs [...]

 

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Isn’t it a little strange that people are essentially writing Rudy off because he has not won in the first three states, even though they always knew that he wouldn’t win early? In fact, it seems like his strategy is more or less playing out as planned, other than the fact that Ron Paul keeps [...]

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I’m a few days late with this, but there was a very interesting and extremely substantive Democratic presidential debate last week on NPR. They spent more than a half hour discussing China, so I think this is particularly relevant for us. The China part starts about 34 minutes in, so you can skip ahead if [...]

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I guess the internets here are causing problems with Itunes or something, because there are a few podcasts that won’t download: Bill Simmons Report, Real Time, This American Life, and Face the Nation. So I’ve been looking for some more good ones, as the first three are probably among my five favorites. Can anyone out [...]

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Just wanted to give you a heads up about an interview I heard with Jerry Seinfeld. Download The interviewer was Steve Somers, a sports radio host/hilarious curmudgeon. This is on the heels of the interview he did with Larry David (interview is 10-5) last month. The best part is about halfway through the podcast Jerry [...]

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