Seems like today is beat up on the Boston Globe day. First it was blindly speaking out against free trade, now it's the sin of stating the obvious.

I understand that this column is an Op/Ed, not a news article, but telling us that there is capitalism in China? Are you serious? Here's how it starts:

THE VIEW across the river at the skyscrapers of Pudong, where only muddy fields had existed 20 years ago, or the sight of jolly crowds of Chinese tourists carousing in the impossibly quaint streets of Lijiang in the hills of Yunnan, called to mind the once-startlingly revolutionary slogan that changed China: "It doesn't matter the color of the cat as long as it catches mice."

OK, I enjoyed the quote when I heard it in school, and perhaps one time after that. However, using what is perhaps the most often used quote in the history of the PRC (by the West) does not make me appreciate the industriousness of the research done for this article.

Wait, it gets better:

China's rocket to the moon seemed timed to crown last month's party congress, and its plans for the Olympic games seem like the preparations of a debutante to celebrate her coming-out party.

If I read the words "coming-out party" one more time within the context of the Olympics, I might hurl. Seriously.

We also find out that China . . . <are you ready?> . . . is purchasing commodities from Africa! What a freakin' scoop that is, eh?

Yes, I'm being a huge asshole here, I admit it. I'm tired and cranky today. But this person gets a column in the Boston Globe, and this is the subject matter?

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