The Nail House and China's Construction Bubble

For insight -- literally "sight into" -- China's construction bubble, see the story in the British paper, the Daily Mail last November," Won't sell up? Enjoy living in the middle of a motorway! Road is built around a house after elderly Chinese couple refuse to move" (click the link).

It's got a series of photos which tell both of the construction boom and of the stubbornness of some people in resisting it.

Confucius in the Headlines? Well, Almost

I've posted a piece at Frog in a Well called Ungraded Love or Double Standards? Stanley Fish, Stephen Asma, and Confucius which comments on a few recent op-ed articles in the NY Times. I point out that the arguments have much in common with the arguments Confucius and his critics had.

I'd like to get your comments and thought there.