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2 more reasons I am glad I live in Asia!
Some of the things that are going on in my home country of the USA, make me wonder if the inmates have taken over the asylum. As I have said before, the idea of returning to a “suburban” existence in...
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Koizumi election watch….plus a blog round up!
The next Japanese election is on September 11 th. How wierd is that? I miss the days when 9/11/xx was just another day in the week. Bin Laden and his ilk should be hung by their gonads for that...
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Friday Beer and Babes
TGIF!!!! Today is a beautiful, albeit, hot day. I should be out playing golf, but instead I’m in going over budget sheets……..Deciding which pots of money we can spend out of and which we can’t. They...
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Giving Michelle a hard time
I’ve decided to go on a rampage this coming week. I’m joining the forces ridiculing watching Michelle Maclagalang. The woman needs sedatives, quickly. Came upon this though, while doing some internet...
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The other shoe drops.
I’m in a bit of a funk this evening and I am not sure why. Lots of news out there, and from where I sit, very little of it is good. I know in my heart my down mood really has nothing to do with the...
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Short post—more funk!
As I explained in my previous post, my current down mood really has nothing to with the current news, depressing as it may be. You see, Sunday is my daughter’s 21′st birthday. It should be a happy time...
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Recycled arguments
I was going to write a long article, taking Chap to task for spewing forth the same tired old wisdom about how invading Iraq, set the Middle East up for great things in Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Kuwait,...
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Now for something we know you will really like!
That’s what Rocky Squirrel used to say on the BullWinkle Show……when they wanted to cut to a commercial: I stayed home today, trying to kick this persistent hangover cold that has been pestering me for...
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Typhoon’s a’ coming!
Well its less than 9 hours before Typhoon 11 is supposed to get here. (??????.It seems to be heading right for the Kanto Plain: Came home, cleaned off the balcony and made the S.O. a nice spaghetti...
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Friday beer and babes!
It’s the little victories that count. Tonight, I carried on an argument with the S.O. (almost)entirely in Japanese. ( It was not an argument really, I’d call it more of an explanation. When the chair...
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Tired and cranky
Nothing pithy to write today, I am afraid. I’m just too tired to get anything useful out. It was a good day though, a nice day just a lot of fun. The S.O. and I quickly kissed and made up since both of...
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Surfing the net…and getting depressed.
The S.O. and I debated whether to play golf today. I finally threw her a bone and offered to take her up to Tohoku ( northern Japan when I go up there next week on business). So with that resolved, we...
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Ahh the good old days……..
Tonight, Casablanca was on TV. As I have noted before, I love that movie, as it symbolizes a time when Hollywood made movies : a) with a plot and b) actually had some quality acting in them. Also its...
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A shameless theft and crossposting!
This post is verbatum from Soldiers for the Truth, Hack’s (former) web site that is still being maintained by some truly great Americans. The most recent posting has words of warning for Rummy and his...
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Democracy in action
Yesterday was the official kickoff of the election season. As a result the election speaker trucks were on the road: That is a DPJ（民主党） truck preaching the message about why Koizumi needs to go. Before...
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The trail of tears
I was rightly reprimanded for an extremely poor attempt at levity in a previous post. I rightfully deserved to get my head slapped and to anyone I offended I offer a sincere and heartfelt apology....
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Friday Beer and babes
Another week, another typhoon. That’s right, Typhoon Nabi is bearing down on Okinawa and is disrupting our carefully planned effort to get stuff moved to the Philippines and Utapao. It’s also putting a...
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Good thing OJ was not tried in Hong Kong.
The Nancy Kissel case is over. The papers having wrung every bit of juicy newsprint out if they could, are now free to go back to their normal pursuits. As for Nancy, well she probably needs to take up...
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This train keeps on a rolling!
I hear the train a comin’It’s rollin’ ’round the bend,And I ain’t seen the sunshine,Since, I don’t know when,I’m stuck in Folsom Prison,And time keeps draggin’ on,But that train keeps a-rollin’,On...
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It would seem God has weighed in on the Supreme Court debate.
Just found out that William Rehnquist has died. Sad news for America, because I always felt he did an excellent job navigating the judicial minefield that both parties had created by asking the courts...
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