The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive Stephen Colbert, on Chen Guangcheng (who he calls "Eric"): "Apparently losing your sight doesn't just make your ears better, it makes your balls bigger." He also says: "Vancouver is full of Chinese people." So true. The cat joke though: DESPICABLE. (We're somewhat of cat lovers here at BJC.) [H/T Austin ...

[caption id="attachment_2356" align="alignnone" width="438" caption="Via Buzzfeed: tinyurl.com/83oyzjt"][/caption] We begin with the Washington Post's excellent story about the differences between Chen Guangcheng's situation and Fang Lizhi's: Worried that taking refuge with American diplomats would allow China’s Communist Party to portray the Tiananmen protest as a U.S.-­orchestrated conspiracy, Fang decide ...

Here's that picture I promised you from about 12 hours ago. Thus concludes our "Where is Chen Guangcheng?" series. Have a lovely Sunday afternoon. ...

On the left of that ancient gate is the new town of Zhangjiakou, a prefecture-level city in Hebei Province. On the right is Old Town. Now you know. Here's a refresher on why we're tracking Chen Guangcheng's progress across China. Hebei, as you know, borders Beijing, so in all likelihood Chen will be back at the US Embassy -- or wherever he's supposed to be, and where the censors say he's not -- in time for ...

Wuhan's Yellow Crane Tower offers quite the vista of the city. I'll let you enjoy it in peace. ...

Look at him there, atop Mt. Emei near Chengdu. He had to climb a lot of stars to get to the top, but he's made it, and look at him... there he is. ...

Chen Guangcheng's flight was delayed, so he didn't have much time in Nanjing. He did, however, manage to take a picture on the seven-kilometer "Spirit Way" in the Ming Dynasty Tombs. Look at him there, so strapping, with the Bactrian camels behind him ready to kowtow to his gait. By the way, there are also "unicorns" on Spirit Way. Chen much prefers them to horses, because unicorns are freakin' awesome. Som ...

Reuters (and everyone else) is reporting that "blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng is under U.S. protection in Beijing": Texas-based ChinaAid said it "learned from a source close to the Chen Guangcheng situation that Chen is under U.S. protection and high level talks are currently under way between U.S. and Chinese officials regarding Chen's status." All of this is unconfirmed, but healthy skepticism asi ...

On his way from Dali to Kunming, the blind activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng made the bus driver pull over so he could personally pull a truck out of a roadside ditch. As the truck held several rows of cages containing dogs headed to the slaughterhouse, Chen convinced the driver of the virtues of "man's best friend," and upon the end of his oratory the surrounding crowd was so moved as to adopt every last mut ...

Activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng escaped from house arrest in Linyi, Shandong province on Sunday. Some say he's at the US Embassy, while others deny it. Very few people know for sure, though two hours ago, he was at Lijiang's Black Dragon Pool. But judging by the picture above, it appears he's now under the clouds in a village in Dali. Although the way the blind move around these days, eluding village thugs, ...

Activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng escaped from house arrest in Linyi, Shandong province on Sunday. Some say he's at the US Embassy, while others deny it. Very few people know for sure. But judging by the picture above, it appears he's at Lijiang's Black Dragon Pool at the foot of Elephant Hill in Old Town. Although the way the blind move around these days, eluding village thugs, I wouldn't be surprised if Che ...

Pic via The Telegraph According to the Associated Press: Chen Guangcheng slipped out of his usually well-guarded house in Dongshigu town on Sunday, said the campaigners, who are based in China and overseas. He Peirong, a leading campaigner for Chen's freedom, said she picked him up and drove him to "a relatively safe place" she would not further describe. "His mental state is pretty good. He's alive, but wh ...