China’s not doing us a favor

What struck me this past week was China’s reaction to our credit downgrade. Its state-run media thundered that America needed to “cure its addiction” to debt…

A Hong Kong newspaper widely read on the mainland ran a front page with a banner saying “The American Dream is Over.”  It went on to report that Washington owes every single Chinese citizen 5,700 Yuan – about 900 U.S. dollars.

Another editorial said Washington’s solution to its debt time bomb was to make the fuse one inch longer.

That kind of commentary has hit a nerve with the Chinese people. After a drop in Shanghai’s…

Can an American Supercop Help Clean Up London’s Streets?

Bill Bratton has made a career out of busting up gangs. Which is probably what makes the former top cop at police departments in Boston, New York City and Los Angeles an appealing source of advice for British Prime Minister David Cameron. Four days of looting and riots by unruly mobs in London last week left public trust shaken. And Cameron needs to restore that trust in the next 10 months, before London hosts the 2012 Summer Olympics.

That’s where Bratton comes in. “We should be looking beyond our shores to learn the lessons from others who have faced similar…

First blog

If there was one question I get asked the most about WordPress themes, it’s this one: how do I make a custom static homepage at the root of my blog’s address (e.g. http://example.com/) and have my blog posts go into a /blog section (http://example.com/blog)?

WordPress is becoming more and more usable as a Content Management System, so naturally the question comes up.

But they don’t want to abandon the idea of a blog either. Blogs can be an integral part of a business website, and it makes sense that businesses and individuals would want the site and the blog managed from…