Author: Skippy-San

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 then I had come across a Communist Party truck and all they could talk about

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 legions of sycophants: An Interview with Lt. Gen. Hal Moore, Combat Commander Part I By

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 not a PC movie. I was thinking about that the other

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 went to play golf. I’m glad I did. I

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 us wanted to play golf today. Can’t

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 comes flying at you, as it did with my ex…now that’s an argument!). I’m so

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 dinner. She is in a nice mood tonight so if I stop this

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 a few days now. With 2 typhoons bearing down on Tokyo, it seemed the prudent

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, and Saudi Arabia. Then I remembered that I had already done it.Its a

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 and I should be happy for her. However, thanks mainly to my