螢雪之功 (Yíng xuě zhī gōng) ( 형설지공 in Korean ). An interpretation of the four character idiom is achievement by firefly and snow. It is a reference to two Chinese classical stories in which poor children without the means for candles or lamps of some kind, study diligently in their absence. The stories are said to have originated in the Jin Dynasty. One story is that a prominent scholar Che Yin as a poor child gathered fireflies in a cloth bag and studied by their light.

This was my escape from the war narrative. Working on it on and off in between chores entirely for entertainment purposes.

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The neoliberals' cultural stuck is in decline. When they had that suave dude Barack Obama telling everyone he was like Gandhi or Mandela, that was totally a thing. Cultural neoliberalism was rockin' da house as every branch of government, both state and Federal, was being awarded to Republicans.

YouGov has published a new survey about the conditions in which transgender people live.

Twenty-four percent of American adults think being transgender is a mental disease. Fort-seven percent think being transgender is a choice.

The human mind is not as flexible as we might like to think. The most obvious place to see this is in the political sphere. Knee jerk responses to frames are the norm, not the exception. The most common place to see this is in the mass media. Political propagandists have known this for centuries.