Far East Cynic

New computer bleg.

No post tonight. The computer fairy came today and left me a new desktop! Too busy setting it up and partioning it so the S.O. has her side and I have mine. So she has her programs and I have my porn programs. My desktop was over 6 years old

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Gay marriage………

UPDATE! Since an emotional arguement seems to stir up the wrong kind of emotions I’ve gone through and corrected the offending F word. A more reasoned post on this same subject will be posted tonight. Driving home from work today, I heard someone talking on NPR about getting “married”. Now

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Call me silly-I was rooting for Rocco……..

“Golf and  sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at it.” –Jimmy Demaret Well at least I got to play golf yesterday. Tried for a trifecta………but alas “the tired fairy” showed up. And part of that lack of performance on the S.O.’s part can be

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She understands

Madam Chiang has a post about me. She points out that what women want these days is a Retrosexual. Once, men were simply men. But then feminists decided they were chauvinist pigs who didn’t spend enough time doing the dishes. So along came the guilt-ridden New Man, swiftly followed by

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Moment of clarity

My Canadian counterpart gets it. Its not about whether the folks in GTMO are legal or illegal combatants. Despite what anyone tells you, anti-terror laws do not necessarily prevent attacks, they just make the investigations and subsequent prosecutions easier. And since the United States Supreme Court effectively destroyed the avenue

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Bulldozing the moral high ground.

I must confess, I do not understand all of the right wing “outrage” about the Supreme Court decision concerning the detainees at GTMO. Do people even hear the things they are saying? In a nutshell, the Court said that Habeas Corpus follows the flag-and if the US chooses to exercise

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Tim Russert….

I was shocked when I opened up my e-mail this evening upon arriving home from work. I was dumbfounded when I saw that Tim Russert had died from a heart attack. The news media and the United States will be poorer without him. Its a common thing among many conservative

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Bert and Ernie

Are gay. At would think so if you watch this video parody of Sesame Street-courtesy of Japan Probe.  “As is common with comedic portrayals of English-speakers, they use a stupid fake gaijin accent that flips the intonation of most words.” That part is very true-especially if they are trying to

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Batting 500

The S.O. failed her drivers test today. Bitten in the ass because she got a female tester instead of a guy and the lady spoke with a wicked Southern accent. ( A guy might have been distracted by the fact that her legs looked great in the shorts she was

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Not looking good for the home team

I’ve just gotten off the phone with United Airlines for the 3rd time today. My attempts to get contact with someone who actually gave a shit have so far been in vain. Near as I can tell: No one at Dulles actually ever checks or answers mail. My bag and

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