The New York Times reports on how Chinese dissidents have made the mythical grass-mud horse a symbol of rebelion? Grass-mud horse? Well, as the Times explains, when written, the Chinese symbols for those words are pretty innocuous. But when spoken they sound an awful lot like "an espeically vile obscenity."
Jacob Sullum has more, including just exactly what that obscenity is.
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Did I mention I'm working on a new line of farm-hand dolls beginning with the famed "chicken pluckers" of yore?
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