Common Sense and Whiskey

New! Non Non-Stop!

There's a non-stop between Kuala Lumpur and LAX, with only an hour and a half stop in Taipei.

Tibet As It Was

A couple of new accounts add richness to the story of Tibet. Tibetans have tried their best to draw the attention of the world to their circumstance. Now, Mark O'Neill reviews 1959 Lhasa in the Asia Sentinel, about the young Dalai Lama's flight to India. And Stephan Talty's new book Escape from the Land of the Snows provides an engaging you-were-there narrative. 

See also Parag Khanna's 3000 mile journey through Tibet and Xinjiang.

And in the China Gallery at EarthPhotos.com, see photos from Tibet, like the photo of the Potala, above.

Sochi Olympics Watch #11

No need to worry, then.

Friday Photo Quiz #101

The central town square in this country's second city. The country's most famous citizen lived in this town for some four decades. Can you name the country? The city?

A good weekend to all from Common Sense and Whiskey & EarthPhotos.com.

(Photo from EarthPhotos.com.)

Cyclone May Affect Lice

"there could be torrential rainfall in Alice Springs at the weekend...." from Cyclone Yasi. Remarkable. Alice Springs is in the very dry "Red Center," the staging area for Ayers Rock (Uluru), something close to 900 miles from where the storm began to weaken after making landfall in Queensland.

See 400 photos from around Australia in the Australia Gallery at EarthPhotos.com.