Far East Cynic

Holy cow! -Bush was right!

About douche tea baggers: Commenting on an upcoming book my Canadian counterpart comes up with a gold nugget. Much of the professionally stupid Republican blogosphere is going absolutely insane over the following excerpt from the Latimer book.   Bush was preparing to give a speech to the annual meeting of

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Ways to know you are a gaijin

 Repeated from Invisible Gaijin. Ones that apply to me-or that I have done (or used to before I was exiled to the land of fat women) are in bold: You call yourself gaijin because you know it pisses off the newbie gaikokujin. You bow repeatedly when talking on the phone.

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Waking up and smelling the coffee….

In Japan, that is. Earlier this week, Phibian went high order because the new leadership in Japan had threatened to cancel Japan’s support of re-fueling ships in the Indian Ocean in support of the war on (Terror, The Taliban, Islamic Extremists, Fill in the blank). As I noted to him

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Does size matter?

Evidently it does when you talking about douche teabaggers:  But yesterday, someone told a real whopper. ABC News, citing the DC fire department, reported that between 60,000 and 70,000 people had attended the tea party rally at the Capitol. By the time this figure reached Michelle Malkin, however, it had

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They stand in the way of the way of the change we need…

T.R. Reid on health care:    

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So that is the guy who is at fault!

My Canadian counterpart has figured out who is to blame for the lousy economy. Some asshole named Grover Norquist: There was a point in the late 1970s when American conservative politics became completely disconnected from reality, particularly on economic policy. Remember, it was Ronald Reagan who believed that you could

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Wine Country

Maya: No, I- I like to think about the life of wine. Miles Raymond: Yeah. Maya: How it’s a living thing. I like to think about what was going on the year the grapes were growing; how the sun was shining; if it rained. I like to think about all

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