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Folks, Jackson has been “mock drafting.” Note the present continuous form. We’re not talking one mock draft, probably not two, and quite possibly 10. His wife recently posted the above video, taken just this past Friday night at 11:51 p.m. According to her Jackson had the 8th pick in the Fantasy Prof Pro PhD Pandemonium Mock Draft #7a, [...]

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I think I’m the last to report this, but this morning I had an interesting conversation with a friend from Korea who was actually in Philadelphia for the weekend for his niece’s wedding. He doesn’t read EWC, has no idea what a hipster is, but asked me if I’d heard about it. He said it [...]

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Some real ugliness here as MLB Network broadcaster Matt Vasgersian yucks it up at the expense of Brad Hawpe, who had to be helped from the field after getting hit in the head by San Diego catcher Nick Hundley’s throw to second base in yesterday’s game.

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Hopefully you’ve been able to catch some of the controversy surrounding some comments Dustin Pedroia made about his hometown, Woodland, California. Having gone to school at UC Davis, I’m somewhat familiar with Woodland, which is just 10-15 minutes north. I had a summer job there, Valley Record Distributors a CD and video distribution center. I didn’t [...]

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In recent weeks in Taiwan there has been a big to do about a disgraced Taiwan Government Information Office (GIO) employee getting sacked over a series of bigoted blog comments written under a pseudonym directed at Taiwanese people.
Kuo Kuan-ming–an employee of a Toronto TECO office (which serves as an embassy-like service abroad for Taiwan)–was [...]

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Nothing says Feb. 16, 2009 like Kim Jong-il’s 68th birthday and EWC’s one-and-a-half year anniversary. Unfortunately, things haven’t always been as cheery and fun loving around here as one might think.
It’s a little strange in retrospect, but when we first started EWC Jackson used to refer to the site as “a set,” to himself as [...]

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I’ve debated posting this since I saw it yesterday. Debated because the photo is funny, but the issue at hand is not — even in my own apartment. The Korea Beat story is titled Kindergarten Fire Escapes “As Dangerous as Ever.”  That’s right. That’s a fire escape at a Korean Kindergarten. If the angle was just [...]

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Yes, welcome to Korea where you can not only get sent to jail for a year-and-a-half for adultery (if you’re a woman), but apprently for seduction as well.
Guilty as charged. Ahem. The story only identifies the player as “Mr. A,” but he was arrested in Inchon and is a “star” player. Apparently police waited to make the [...]

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Just when you think there may be one or two things left inconceivable by the human imagination, it turns out that reports of organ harvesting–especially of Falun Gong members–turns out to be real.
I saw a lot of Falun Gong protestors in Hong Kong and New York City, and always kind of dismissed them as wackos [...]

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From the AFP story: Woman arrested for calling Japanese police 7,177 times
Japanese police arrested a woman for making more than 7,000 emergency telephone calls because an officer did not take her initial complaint seriously, a police spokesman said Wednesday.
The 38-year-old was arrested on Tuesday on charges of obstructing police work, a police spokesman in western [...]

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Geoff Baker has a couple of articles called Rebuilding the Mariners about Seattle’s finest (found via MLBTR), who have now become the first team with a $100 million payroll to lose 100 games. As you can imagine there’s a lot of blame to go around, but featuring prominently are Ichiro and Kenji Johjima, the latter [...]

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Here are a series of spoofs of Sanlu commercials. Sanlu is the  major Chinese baby milk company currently under fire for distributing tainted milk. According to Danwei this clip has already been taken off Chinese video sharing sites, but you can still find it on YouTube.
Even if you don’t speak Chinese (like me) you’ll still [...]

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It might seem that Elliot Spitzer had the most humiliating week in news on the heels of his call girl escapades in the big apple this week .  But a new candidate has suddenly emerged: MLB journeyman player and Boston Red Sox scout (we’re assuming former at this point) Jesse Levis was accused [...]

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