You ran for Vice President-that did not quite work out the way you had hoped. After that, you became bored running America’s largest, most homogeneous, and easiest to run state. It’s still a month or so till moose hunting season. The kids are all back in school-except Bristol, who’s got
Month: August 2009
Ponyo
The S.O. and I went to the movies this evening. We went to see the English version of the Hayao Miyazaki film, Gake no ue no Ponyo. (Ponyo of above the cliff (by the sea)). The Disney title is simpler: Ponyo. If you only see one "G" rated movie this
Continue readingGlenn Beck summarized……
By Howard Beale. Whenver I see Glen Beck on the TV-either at work or normally in the gym, where I crank up the speed on the treadmill because my anger towards the good Mr. Beck gets pumped up-I always think of the movie Network. Because in the personage of Glenn
Continue readingPeter Parker's not going to like this.
Kirsten Dunst shooting a music video in Tokyo: The video was shot in Akihabara-the Tokyo electronics district. More pix here.
Continue readingPeter Parker’s not going to like this.
Kirsten Dunst shooting a music video in Tokyo: The video was shot in Akihabara-the Tokyo electronics district. More pix here.
Continue readingWhat was the number of that truck that hit us?
For only the second time in half a century-Japan has a Prime Minister who is not from LDP: TOKYO, Aug 30 (Reuters) – Japanese voters swept the opposition to a historic victory in an election on Sunday, ousting the long-ruling conservative party and handing the novice Democrats the job of
Continue readingElection Day-what's in it for the US?
Not here in the US, but over on the right side of the International Dateline. In Japan they will be having elections for the lower house today. Its not looking good for the home team of LDP. The odds are pretty good that they will go down to a crushing
Continue readingElection Day-what’s in it for the US?
Not here in the US, but over on the right side of the International Dateline. In Japan they will be having elections for the lower house today. Its not looking good for the home team of LDP. The odds are pretty good that they will go down to a crushing
Continue readingA great summation
Of how far gone Americans are, is delivered by Munro Ferguson at Coming Anarchy: This post could be subtitled: Why I find American politics tedious. I steer clear of online political forums, read very few blatantly partisan blogs (though the few that do rest in my RSS reader are excellent)
Continue readingMarket selfishness
One of the more interesting things about the health care debate in this country-is the argument being made that the free market does not, of itself, impose any sort of rationing on health care services. Ezra Klein recently did a pretty good job blowing a hole in that theory: "Look
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