Far East Cynic

Self created problems

James Fallows has a great post up concerning Libya-and how Obama has no one to blame but himself for his troubles with Congress: This was a problem foreseeable from the very start* — more than three months ago, when we were told that this would be a campaign of “days,

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Crunch Time

It is crunch time for a bunch of reasons I cannot go into right now. Mostly related to my @#$%^& Six Sigma course. ( Which blows with a capital “B”). But-it has been brought to my attention that some folks are taking issue with John Stewart’s statement that Fox News

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The real criticism that should be leveled at the media.

Was explained very cogently yesterday by Jon Stewart, and ironically it was explained in the place where news goes to die-the Fox Noise Machine. If you haven’t seen this interview between Chris Wallace, you should. Its a tour de force take down of the people at Fox News. There are

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RIP Clarence Clemons

This is really sad. Any male of a certain age-who tells you he never drove his car fast with this song blaring out of the radio at about 90db-is lying. Clarence Clemons was the “power sax” player in Springsteen’s band and his sax playing makes this tune extraordinary. Rest in

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Worth the time.

To watch this video. Conan O’Brien gave the commencement address at Dartmouth this year. It is a great speech-the last 4 minutes really spoke to me. Take the time to watch it. If you don’t have time-just pick it up at about the 14 minute mark or so. ““There are

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One week down

And putting together a plan of sorts-in the short term at least, I could at least have a lot of fun riding the roller coaster to career oblivion. Then again-maybe not:

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There is a shorter way to say it.

Conor Friedersdorf has a good take down of America’s most worthless piece of shitsleaziest blogmeister: There is some truth in Breitbart’s assessment: liberals do excel in the realm of culture, and conservatives too often convey their ideas less adeptly. But he hasn’t a clue how to remedy the situation —

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Coming to terms……

With living in Shopping Mall USA. The last few days have been a pretty up and down  ride. First of all, it has reaffirmed my faith in my company-which may yet prove misguided, but for now I am sticking with them. I think I am going to land on my

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The juicy girls win one!

Who would have thought the juicy girl bar owners  had their own lobby? More wives in Korea is the last thing they want or need: Service members headed to South Korea on assignment in the next few years may not be taking their families. A Senate subcommittee voted Tuesday to put

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Still here-but busy

Lots going on-lots of things to work through and consider. Six Sigma is kicking my beleaguered butt-it shouldn’t and if this were a regular weekly class it would be a lot worse. But I let some things slide ( funny how the prospect of unemployment does that)-and now its catch

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