The S.O. and I went to a Pferdemarkt today. ( Horse Market). It was up in Leonberg-a very charming old town northwest of Stuttgart. They have a four-day festival-part of which is a Pferde Markt or Horse Market. Today there was a horse show-so the S.O and I went: We
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A long strange trip….
This is what you get when a bunch of Hollywood scriptwriters are sitting around with a bag of weed, a bong, several bottles of Scotch and time on their hands. Palin vs Nazi's from the moon! Space Battleship Yamato without the anime.
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Tom Ricks has a great guest post up about the military's propensity to create a lot of its own problems: Never have so few been supervised by so many doing so little. For the last ten years, the terms "field grade oversight" and "adult supervision" have been used entirely too
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Commenter Cupajoe wanted a rant against marriage. By amazing coincidence-I’m feeling right down on that subject tonight. Ask, and ye shall receive: Lovingly stolen from Expat at Large!
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You greasy bastards. Still one of the greatest movie lines of all time. Its also a good theme for my blog birthday-which occurs today. This blog is 7 years old today. A milestone of sorts-and the adventure has definitely not gone as I thought it would back in 2005. I
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Greetings from the European Deep Freeze: More pictures here. Temp in Stuttgart was below zero-FAHRENHEIT!
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Like someone, you might have met at Impanema or Peyton Place in Singapore. ( If you need a geography lesson-go here.) Actually, I take that back-this woman is not nearly as sincere as some of the women in the Country Western Bar-and that is saying a lot. James Fallows sums
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I wanted to wait a while before writing about the genuine sadness I felt when I heard about the death of Christopher Hitchens. He was a great writer, a man who understood how to paint a picture with words, and as an Englishman who cared deeply for the United States-probably
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The S.O. and I went to the Fasching parade today. Fasching is carnival season. Originally it was a Pagan festival which came out of ancient Rome or Greece. In recent centuries, however, it has become more associated with the Christian Church. Officially the season starts on 11th November at 11:11am, although
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Courtesy of Fucked Gaijin comes this little tidbit of yet another less than flattering portrait of foreigners in Japan: The myth that Japan is a homogenous society lost its veracity long ago. With the growth of globalization, the sight of foreigners living and working in Japan is certainly no
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