Far East Cynic

Worth the time.

To watch this video. Conan O’Brien gave the commencement address at Dartmouth this year. It is a great speech-the last 4 minutes really spoke to me. Take the time to watch it. If you don’t have time-just pick it up at about the 14 minute mark or so. ““There are

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One week down

And putting together a plan of sorts-in the short term at least, I could at least have a lot of fun riding the roller coaster to career oblivion. Then again-maybe not:

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There is a shorter way to say it.

Conor Friedersdorf has a good take down of America’s most worthless piece of shitsleaziest blogmeister: There is some truth in Breitbart’s assessment: liberals do excel in the realm of culture, and conservatives too often convey their ideas less adeptly. But he hasn’t a clue how to remedy the situation —

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Coming to terms……

With living in Shopping Mall USA. The last few days have been a pretty up and down  ride. First of all, it has reaffirmed my faith in my company-which may yet prove misguided, but for now I am sticking with them. I think I am going to land on my

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The juicy girls win one!

Who would have thought the juicy girl bar owners  had their own lobby? More wives in Korea is the last thing they want or need: Service members headed to South Korea on assignment in the next few years may not be taking their families. A Senate subcommittee voted Tuesday to put

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Still here-but busy

Lots going on-lots of things to work through and consider. Six Sigma is kicking my beleaguered butt-it shouldn’t and if this were a regular weekly class it would be a lot worse. But I let some things slide ( funny how the prospect of unemployment does that)-and now its catch

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Best appreciated after a half a bottle of Scotch

I think you have to be a real Star Trek fan (and be half in the bag) to really appreciate this:

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Good point.

Bill Maher points out that if you are at least going to have to go through the indignity of a sex scandal-maybe you ought to actually have sex:

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Opportunity knocks

Up early this morning-searching for the Uzi and the 9MM. Fridays are always a good day to go postal. When into my inbox comes a great new career opportunity.  This has potential-     🙂

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Upheaval.

“Six years of college down the drain.” Today,  the carefully ordered world of yours truly ( and that of my section of my company) was blown apart. In a situation familiar to many Americans-I am now facing an uncertain future-vis a vis continued employment here in Shopping Mall USA.  That

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