Author: Hei Lun Chan

Hei Lun is a retail manager living in Massachusetts. His interests include eating, running, video games and board games. He's a sports fan who doesn't watch sports. He's mostly a libertarian even though Facebook ad preferences thinks he's a "very liberal". His Twitter handle is @heilun_chan
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Hei Lun Chan

/// September 30, 2019

Border Misadventures

Somehow I managed to cross the U.S.-Canadian border twice in the past week without the proper documentation.

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Hei Lun Chan

/// August 26, 2019

Maybe Forgiveness After All

How much debt should you legally be able to take on before you can legally drink alcohol?

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NBA Legend Kobe Bryant Dead in Helicopter Crash
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NBA Legend Kobe Bryant Dead in Helicopter Crash
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Stunning news in the sports world, as one of the greatest to ever play basketball is dead at the age of 41 in a helicopter crash.

Kobe Bryant, the Los Angeles Lakers superstar and future NBA Hall of Famer, died on Sunday in a helicopter crash. He was 41.

Officials confirm to Variety that Bryant was a passenger on board a helicopter that crashed in the Los Angeles County suburb of Calabasas.

TMZ first reported the news.

A five-time NBA champion with the Lakers, Bryant was considered one of the greatest basketball players of all-time.

He is survived by his wife, Vanessa, and four daughters – Gianna, Natalia and Bianca and Capri.

UPDATE: Gets worse...

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="1024"]kobe bryant photo Photo by Neon Tommy [/caption]

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Bernie Sanders accepts Joe Rogan’s endorsement
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Bernie Sanders accepts Joe Rogan’s endorsement
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From Bernie Sanders on Twitter:

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Boris Johnson announces that the Withdrawal Agreement has received Royal Assent
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Boris Johnson announces that the Withdrawal Agreement has received Royal Assent
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From Twitter:

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Grist for the Moral Mill
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Grist for the Moral Mill
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From here (courtesy of Hanley):

Rather, I want to explore two ideas that are ubiquitous among the morally (self) righteous, of whatever stripe, and which may somewhat explain why they behave so awfully so often.

The first is that the rightness of one’s cause justifies and even ennobles terrible behavior on one’s own part.

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The second – and it is intimately related to and entwined with the first – is that those whom the (self) righteous believe are Bad People deserve neither quarter nor pity. The idea isn’t just that The Bad deserve what they get, a kind of melancholic observation of what comes of bad Karma, but that we should put the boot in (especially when they are down) and should be brutal in doing it…and pitiless afterwards.

Extending grace only to those you like is not how grace works.

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From the Daily Mail: Mexico and Colombia may have their first coronavirus cases
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From the Daily Mail: Mexico and Colombia may have their first coronavirus cases
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From the Daily Mail:

Mexico and Colombia may have their first coronavirus cases as the contagious illness that has killed 17 spreads from China to at least 531 people around the world

  • Mexican and Colombian officials are investigating their countriess first possible case of the new coronavirus
  • In Mexico, the patients is on the northern border state of Tamaulipa, which borders Texas
  • The Colombian case concerns a 19-year-old Chinese citizen, who traveled to Bogotá from Turkey
  • As of Wednesday, 531 worldwide have caught the viral illness and 17 have died 
  • Cases have been confirmed in Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the US, which reported its first patient, a man in his 30s in Washington state, on Tuesday
  • One person in Australia is reportedly in isolation and may have the virus  

 

(Featured image is coronavirus, from the Science Photo Library.)

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