Freaky Frugalite

Say, ever wonder where all your clothes, TVs, computers, car parts, apple juice, eyeglasses, ballpoint pens, office furniture, and board games come from? Yeah, China. The world’s 3rd largest country, 1.3 billion people, the most populous nation in the world. And obviously, the nation with the Most Bicyclists in the World, eh? All these photos [...]

This is just DESPICABLE. Dairy farmers in China have dumped toxic melamine into the milk to make the protein content appear higher. This is milk used for baby formula, for pete’s sake! There was a HUGE hoo-hah over Chinese melamine dumped into pet food; has anyone heard about this poisoning of baby formula? Thank God [...]

There is a stunning post at EastCoast Life about the abhorrent practice of foot-binding in the Orient. The photos are both sickeningly fascinating, and inexplicably horrendous. The kids and I have studied the missionary work of Gladys Aylward, a hero of ours. She was an Englishwoman in the early 1900s who desperately desired to evangelize [...]