Joe Galloway on Robert McNamara. Well, the aptly named Robert Strange McNamara has finally shuffled off to join LBJ and Dick Nixon in the 7th level of Hell. McNamara was the original bean-counter — a man who knew the cost of everything but the worth of nothing. Ouch! His
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Home again.
Home again. Long day spent in pursuit of airplanes-walking between gates, waiting to get delayed. There seems to be an un-written rule for me in the Charlotte Airport. My gates will always be as far apart physically as they can be. The distance between the gates is inversely proportional to
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They will go even more high order! Seems that delving into the facts about Saint Sarah is not allowed. It gets in the way of the narrative: One of the chief reasons Sarah Palin has given for resigning as Governor of Alaska is that her state’s taxpayers are being forced
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Three cities, three days. Evenings spent traversing between them. On the way to one of them today, went past the spot where John Wilkes Booth died. The Garrett farm house is now gone-and its location in the middle of a median. There was room enough to stop though-so I did
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Spike tells us Compuserve is dead. I was a Compuserve customer-a long time ago in a galaxy far away.
Continue readingBeethoven and Japan.
Fucked Gaijin points out: Every national culture has its weird obsessions, and it seems as if Japan’s oddball closet is more crowded than most ? Pokémon, Elvis Presley and Hello Kitty are just a few of the country’s most famous fixations. But perhaps most peculiar of all is the
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Died today. Leaving Donald Rumsfeld now in the unenviable position of longest living , really bad, Secretary of Defense. ( Quote shamelessy stolen from my Canadian counterpart). Most of the coverage has centered on Vietnam-for which he does deserve a healthy share of criticism. However Vietnam was many years in
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And this is now. Let me go back to a comfortable analogy for me – sports… basketball. I use it because you’re naïve if you don’t see the national full-court press picking away right now. Seems the shoe is on the other foot now.
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This commercial is making the rounds in Japan. Sure beats talking about politics! Recruit publishes Job Guides in Japan. Their magazines with job listings always have off beat names.
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We went to the fireworks last night at one of the literally dozens of shopping malls here in this hillbilly hell litle burgh. Fortunately the Barnes and Noble was open-the better to capitalize on hundreds of people converging on said shopping mall. Since they had a Starbucks and we had
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