http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/a_sad_day_for_chinas Five people were recently arrested in east China for providing stripteases at funerals despite, I assume, healthy protests from all that their services are a necessary part of the grieving process. Via Reuters: "Striptease used to be a common practice at funerals in Donghai's rural areas to allure viewers," it said. "Local villagers believe that the more people who attend the funeral, the more the dead person is honored." And the less clothes strippers are wearing, the more the dead are saluted. Wealthy families often employed two troupes of performers to attract a crowd. Two hundred showed up at last... Copyright 2007 Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:52:20 -0800 Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:31:42 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss one can reliably take the starlight southbound TO Portland, as it begins in Seattle; one cannot take it reliably FROM Portland, as it begins in LA. Northbound, the local trains are more reliable.

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