Far East Cynic

Spring is sprung?

I think the jury is still out on that. Woke up to Palm Sunday raining cats and dogs outside. Still made it to Mass, where the priest informs the small group of folks sitting in the pews , ” Mass will be at 9am this morning. And no, you don’t

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Repressed sexuality…..

I stumbled across this article the other day. I suspect it will be more than a little controversial-but I liked it because it echoes some of my own feelings about the mental damage the the “sex is holy” attitude inflicts upon so many people. You might  not realize it, but

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North Korean Update

I held off commenting on this till more info was out there: South Korea is scrambling to locate at least 46 South Korean military personnel missing after a one of the South’s naval patrol vessels sank in a tense maritime area disputed by North Korea.  Seoul is investigating what caused

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TGIF!

Consider this an open thread. Definitely need one of those. And later I need one of these:

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More close mindedness

It was not just me that walked away from the Republican party-they walked away from a lot of us. Its not just David Frum who is being shunned-its anyone who thinks for themselves.

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It is that weekend again.

Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright, The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light, And somewhere men are laughing, and little children shout; But there is no joy in Teabaggerville — mighty Rushboy did not get his way. Its the last weekend of March-and hordes of

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Eating their young……

And here I thought that was only the province of SWO’s (Surface Warfare Officers)…….. Not so, evidently. In the brave new world of the Republican party, if you criticize anything about them-even when you are right-you get fired: David Frum, who wrote a widely-circulated blog post Sunday suggesting passage of

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Your tax dollars at work……

Penny wise-pound foolish when it comes to travel dollars: With a few simple words — “I would have to object” — Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina derailed a Senate Armed Services hearing today in which generals had traveled from Korea and Hawaii to testify about the Pentagon’s

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Speaking of irony……

It would appear the concept is lost on the founder of the Tea Party movement as well. I am so very not suprised. “The small-government conservative movement, which includes people who call themselves the tea party patriots and so forth, is about the principles of liberty as embodied in the

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Something every can like!

Time to have some fun. Something to laugh about-I watched this video on You Tube tonight.

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