Far East Cynic

No amplification required………

I’m going to promote Air Force Blues again. Any web site that makes this advertisment has to have something going for it: Screw your buddies!You can have a buddy, or enemy, immortalized in an Air Force Blues comic. Hey folks, here’s a new way to spend your money! For a

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I’m dissappointed….

My blog is not quite in the gutter where it should be: Sigh……..Even Mili got an R rating! Guess I should read Spike more. Subscribe in a reader

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Death of common sense……..

Getting slowly but surely dug out from a long trip and dealing with weighty personal issues has to be a physically and mentally exhausting activity. So I’ve taken a while to comment on something that Phibian has commented extremely well on the last month of so. The United States Navy-following

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Game shows……..

Featuring fighter pilots: I know a few who could qualify-H/T to Air Force Blues! Subscribe in a reader

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Foot in mouth disease………

Japan has a new defense minister. Over here, telling the truth about some things is down right dangerous: TOKYO: Japan’s defense minister resigned Tuesday after suggesting the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 were inevitable, a comment that stirred up a storm of criticism in a country

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Quantas strikes again!

Well, I’m back. I had to change my flight info and depart a couple of days early. Getting that done was like pulling teeth. Had to drive out to the airport and like their American counterparts looked at my ticket like it was tainted. So it took me almost 24

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Good morning world!

I have had a lot of time to think here in Canberra. About life and what’s passed and what may be ahead. Trying hard to come to some sort of logical conclusion about it all. So I may be in and out over the next couple of weeks. I’ve got

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No worries mate!

That is, I think, the most used phrase Australians use. You hear it all the time. Say, “Excuse me” and the reply is no worries. Say I’m sorry, and it is no worries. Say the girl at the next table has a nice ass…and the reply is the same. (She

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I’m still here!

I’m not dead (yet!). But getting to be able to read or post this blog or others is hard this trip. I’m on a very odd shift and I have to be in bed pretty early because of a pretty early wake up. So talk about this. Its not just

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Limited Comms

For a while. The place I am staying only has wireless in the lobby. Its rainy and cold here now and I am on the other side of the compound. So I will check in from time to time but for a few days-I’ll be out. Working weird hours does

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