The emergence of the Tea parties with their racially coded appeals and calls for national renewal, the anti-immigrant movement, the growth of patriot militias all underscore fascistic tendencies within the American polity, but without a comprehensive...

My language skills are not very sharp...after about three months I can still only say a couple of words. Reading and writting are impossable at this point. I need to write my name however, and learning the characters has been a two-week project. At last...

Inside a Buddhist Temple(see below) Climbing around the rocks in the stream, Lying Dragon Valley Buddhist Temple in one of the historic mountain villages A street scene along a stream. My work trip was a blast, I am really tired now, need to put captions...

A picture is worth a thousand words. I think this graphic captures the essence of Northern Virginia and the core business of the Washington Metropolitan Area in all its glory. The picture came from the Project for the Old American Century website. Comic...

I thought this was the best website about Wuhan with good links and the Wuhan interactive map. Wuhan is a facinating place...a part of the sustainable cities program at the global scale. Recently the city implemented price controls to contain escalating...

An analysis of hate crime and hate groups in the US, must consider spatial properties and how they relate to the research question at hand. Hate crime and hate groups both display patterns of spatial unevenness at multiple scales and with differing patterns...

I think this analysis is great. William Frey the demographer has also written about the new census.He addresses among other things the impact of immigration on population. The US Census of course has written its own series of white papers and has a very...

I liked this movie when I saw it last year. I found the review on a blog space and fiction, project to collaboratively map geographies of fiction including film. Another site, Canadian cinematographic territories is a collaborative mapping: "In this research...

The article reposted below I think gets at some of the factors that make a new and different kind of fascism a distinct possiblity. The author relies on the classical Marxcist definition of fascism and links it to the proccesses of neoliberalization and...

A city is an event, a social product that persists. As a site where continuous politics is preformed, the national Mall becomes a ritual space for the enactment of American Civil religion. The Mall is separated from the mundane civic life of the District...