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Tell this to your tea party friends…..
I’m going to go on a series of posts disproving some of the wildest distortions that have been beamed into the minds of those who believe that they have some kind of a novel new notion, about...
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It just was………….. Bonus points if you can guess what Mommy does for a living!
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This is pretty cool……
Chino Otsuka has combined pictures of herself from 30 years ago to make an interesting montage: See the rest here
View ArticleThe video you helped write…….
Billy Joel updated for the 21′st century(Language NFSW): Flame on baby! Courtesy of College Humor-who says undergrads don’t learn anything? UPDATE-College Humor wants you to see their ads. You can see...
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And why all of the folks defending the indefensible are wrong. James Fallows sums it up very well: Nonetheless I contend that a full process of American self-examination and accountability will make a...
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Mythbusters
Once, just once-I’d like to tear down some really stupid myths about taxes. The one big one I’d like to put to bed once and for all is the line you hear repeated over and over by people who should...
View ArticleTone deaf……..
If you make a decision, and have no overlying evidence to change your mind-stick to it. This, is just plain stupid. Worse, its picking a fight that makes your other fights that much harder to win....
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Even the Korean postal service gets it right……..
Taken from Japan Probe: The South Korean government has been pushing for English speakers to stop using the name “Sea of Japan” in favor of the Korea-centric “East Sea” name, but it seems that the...
View ArticleI’ve got to see this movie….
Which was pointed out to me by Japan Probe: The movie is called Hariymaya Bridge-and it appears to capture a lot of the issues involved in Gaijin marriage with Japanese. The story concerns an American...
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Aberdeen
Phil: I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster and drank pina coladas. At sunset we made love like sea otters. *That* was a pretty good day. Why couldn’t I get that day over and...
View ArticleWhy the National Review Online survives…..
And why Jonah Goldberg has not been burned at the stake. (His book sucks by the way….). Because not every news magazine can be as good as The Economist. P.S. The Financial Times has Goldberg pegged...
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Charisma Man…….
Back in the day-shuttling from work to Tokyo for Japanese class-one of my favorite things to see upon rolling into the Black Lion pub in Meguro, was to pick up the latest edition of Japanzine. ( The...
View ArticleMaking the circuit……….
I will never understand women. Not that understanding them has ever really been a goal-merely securing their daily cooperation will suffice for me. However, trying to understand how their twisted...
View ArticleIt’s the end of the world as we know it……….
When I agree with Glenn Reynolds: RADLEY BALKO: Putting MADD in Charge of America’s Highways. “With Hurley in charge, MADD’s goals will become NHTSA’s goals. That’s troubling because at heart, MADD is...
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The North American version of SARS?
MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexico’s government is ordering closed schools nationwide as the suspected death toll from swine flu climbed to 149. Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova says only 20 of the deaths...
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Nice shoes…..
On the feet of the girls of Ewha University in Korea. The rest of the bodies attached to feet in said shoes are not too bad either.
View ArticleBeating the wrong horse…….
I’ve been following with considerable interest, the ongoing war debate between Thomas Ricks and the service academies. It all started with this article in the Washington Post: After covering the U.S....
View ArticlePermission to go ashore……
In style. Another contemporary of mine has retired. Only he did it in the style that only he can do. ….he passes through the “side-boys” down the “after-brow” and “ashore” where he “doffs” his uniform...
View ArticleWhy they just won’t get it…….
The party I was a proud member of and still claim as my political home. When Lieberman abandons the principles of his party-because of his beliefs-somehow that is OK. When a moderate Republican says I...
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