Far East Cynic

Carnival of Buffoonery…………..

The S.O. is out tonight. Rather than take advantage of it to skate out to one of my favorite bars, I decided to stay in and watch real TV for a change, (NO NHK!!!!!!!! The most mind numbingly boring channel on the face of the planet. Give me T&A on

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On the rebound

For a guy who had 3 times the legal limit at the Naval Academy, I felt pretty good when I got up to go to work this morning. So there, Helen Dunn, one can drink and still make it to work on time. ( In case you have not figured

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I had a bad day……………

That’s the understatement of the year. I was going to post something to explain my rather intense rant about the first Muslim woman space tourist and why, in the long run, it would be economics not kinetics that make the Arab world change its attitudes about women and society. However

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Mike finds another one!

Mike has found another Sun King video……… Bad Bob and others will especially appreciate the mighty War Hummer leading the Air Wing flyby! This is what happens when you steam in circles for 5 months waiting for the Photo-op! Subscribe in a reader

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Everything I needed to know about life I learned from Star Trek.

This post is dedicated to the management professionals at the US Naval Academy. It seems that they left a few important details out of your curriculum. As a public service I thought I would pass a few of these life lessons.We get high on life! For the Commandant of Midshipmen:

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Tagged!

Madame Chiang tagged me with a meme: Seven Songs List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LiveJournal/blog along with

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Remakes………..

Seems like evert third movie coming out these days is a remake of some earlier movie. Here are a couple of examples of this trend taken to its most ridiculous extreme. “Open the pod bay doors HAL……..” These are the kinds of movies you watch when you are not allowed

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My 15 minutes of fame……….

Like they say in the business world, networking is the key. Get a reference from someone of influence…….the world can be your oyster: For a little while anyway. It does prove an old truth though. One nice girl putting her hair down and shaking her butt, beats any amount of

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Its been a while……..

Since I did Beer and Babes………. To tell the truth, when I was in Korea, I just did not have the energy, I was just grateful to have the week be over with. Since then, I’ve been a fitful mood, although I did see plenty of these during my little

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The son follows in his fathers footsteps……..

William F. Buckley’s son that is. Richard the Peking Duck found this little gem of an article in the Washington Monthly by Christopher Buckley. With tightly written prose, he captures the dilemna of today’s thinking moderate: I voted for George W. Bush in 2000. In 2004, I could not bring

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