Like the sparrow, he trusts to an omnivident fortune to cast him crumbs, and roosts on the first bough that comes; like the happy tiger he roams forth daily in search of prey, with a stomach that can well endure a little disappointment.

O weary night, O long and tedious night, Abate thy houres, shine comforts from the East, That I may backe to Athens by day-light […].

They commodify the same spectacle of purity and violation as the tabloids, but unadorned by faux sentimentality: 18 year-old strippers dressed as pubescent virgins are initiated into the ranks of what Max likes to call 'fuckmeat.'

A court in the far western region sentenced 12 people to death on Monday for an attack in Xinjiang's southern Yarkant county on July 28, in which the government said 59 terrorists were gunned down by security forces, while 37 civilians were killed.