in the rear-Yunnan, out the bottom-Nepal (verdict: Tibet is fantasticular)
besides a couple pairs of unspeakably filthy underpants, i reached Lhasa with suprisingly few issues. i know i'm writing at a brick wall but if you gutless sacks of computer potatoes decide to take a vacation, i suggest it be this trip. in my illustrious 5 year career of traveling, i've yet to see such near-unspoiled scenery as penile-explodingly gorgeous as that seen in Tibet. watch the video after the jump and once your erections subside and the blood returns to your brain, i'm sure you'll agree.
as the Beijing olympics approach, i couldn't help but notice the coincidental appearance of bulldozers and earthmovers on the unpaved dirt roads plied by our 
bus (bear with me as i take a quick jab at the chine-eez gov-t's1 sop to the international community). why after over 50 years of occupation has Beijing decided to throw some pavement down on this long forgotten stretch of previously dirt and gravel 'highway'? every mile or so, one sees Han migrant workers feverishly paving or flattening in preparation for a newly constructed road that the government will surely trumpet pre-Olympics time to the international press. too little, too late, Pinkos! and for the record, you still have the dubious distinction of history's ugliest world leader with North Korea a close second. it's an axis of ugly only a mother can love.
1 in an effort to avoid blacklisting by the Great Firewall of China, thejerk.org editors suggest i mispell some 'sensitive' topics. long live F@lu(n) G-o^n@g!
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