The plate belongs to Morgan Stanley Vice-Chairman Rob Kindler. What is wrong with these people?

This is one of the funniest Saturday Night Live skits I’ve seen in a longtime. As Obama visited China this week, SNL spoofs the press conference.

Humble Oil ran this ad in Life Magazine, 1962. Humble was acquired by Standard Oil, which later became Exxon. Maximum irony.

Chairman Mao built a whole city underground, beneath Beijing. Large enough to shelter 6 million residents after a nuclear attack. It would have stores, bedrooms, apparently even a rollerskating rink. Now a lot of tunnel has been converted to subway,...