I presume that CNN's announcement on special posters that its embedded journalism will be around and internationally, but with an American eye, watch that election circus from within the beast, will result in somewhat different formulations from mine...

If you prefer to spend your Sunday with some more honesty and intelligence (a dash here and a dash there, and maybe the world will improve), I have some fantastic reading for you:

"I went into St. Petersburg from Helsinki on a train, like Lenin though with less effect, because Aeroflop had lost our reservations in its central abacus. The border Nazis rolled down window shades in case we might have stashed propaganda in them. It was like going into a prison. It was going into a prison. That’s how communism is supposed to work.

But China. If the government had the slightest interest in us, I didn’t notice it. For two weeks we rushed about—Beijing, Xian, Chungking, Shanghai, Guilin, and such like, and spat ourselves out into Hong Kong like a cud. I don’t astound easily, but this time I astounded. Sure, I knew about the vast rivers of vacuum cleaners and calculators spewing out of China into Wal-Mart. But knowing it was like knowing that the Grand Canyon is a large hole. It doesn't convey the reality.

The joint is hopping. China has 1.3 billion people, and 1.5 billion construction cranes."

Or:

"Chungking is what New York would be if New York were a big city."

Or:

"Back then every country with a patch of jungle, two colonels and a torture chamber had a Five Year Plan, efficiently doing nothing."

Appetite wetted? But didn't guess the author? No one else can write and think like Fred Reed. Enjoy the rest of it:

Looking for Commies in China

You'd Do Better in the Harvard Faculty Lounge