Far East Cynic

Electoral foolishness………..

First, its primary election day in the US in 5 states. In two, Georgia and Connecticut, the incumbents are in trouble. For the record I am hoping both lose. Cythnia McKinney because she is a moron, Joe Lieberman because he needs to be the victim in a bigger cause: sending

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Gen baku no hi………..August 6th, 1945- Hiroshima.

Today is August 6th. The 61’st anniversary of the atomic bomb released on Hiroshima. Gen baku (??) is Japanese for atomic bomb. As you might expect there has been a lot of coverage on the various TV networks including bell ringing at the hour of the attack. The history is

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Hanabi……..

Today was a reasonably good day. I got up on the assumption that I was going to play golf el solo lobo. As I was making coffee at about 5:50 am I heard rumblings from the S.O.’s direction in our room. Now mind you, we had agreed that I would

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Funny things to see……and read!

Out and about town that is. Having gotten our cars all properly registered, we decided to put them to some use this evening. Out to Kura sushi for dinner. ( All plates 105 yen!). After gorging myself on 15 plates ( and thus tying my previous record….), I rolled out

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Mel Gibson may not think this is funny…..

But I do. Hongkie Town Redux: Bad Timing? Now that is funny!

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Why I like trains…………..reason 134…..

In this new job, I have to drive to various locations in and around the Kanto plain. So I sold my old car and bought a reasonably nice one. Plus, because I do go out in the car, vice just taking the train, I and the S.O. decided we should

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Does anyone remember the Middle East War that really matters?

In watching the news networks in the last few days, I (and others) have been amazed at how the little fracas in Iraq has been shoved off the radar screen. Consider ( courtesy of the Duck…) this fact: CNN will surely remind us today that it is Day 19 of

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