Far East Cynic

All down hill from here

More and more men are showing up for body pump class. I do not consider it a positive development. After class, when Angie the dominatrix instructor was done showing us how fit she is, and how unfit I am- I went in to the locker room, changed into my swim

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Why them?

Why not attack teachers? It is a lot easier than putting the blame on the parents-who refuse to take an equal responsibility for what’s wrong with American society. Which is why the quote from John Cole’s place rings very true: The New York Times is having a hard time figuring out why

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Let’s hurry up and get this over with…..

Hey! It’s March….and we all know what that means……. Yes, its that oh so special time of the year when we get to celebrate the history that women want us to know about while whitewashing the details they would rather just not see printed in the paper. So, as is

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The Naval Institute…

Has been going downhill for quite some time now. I’ve been a member of the Institute for 30+years now and in the last ten years-its flagship magazine, Proceedings-has really failed to satisfy. But now, it has really hit rock bottom. I’ll leave it to someone more qualified than me to

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The unintended consequences.

When you make changes in haste-they seldom turn out to be good ones. What I am about to chronicle in this post is an example of a change made by these guys-that is 100% at odds with what they supposedly want from those they inflicted it on. In their haste

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I wish they offered this at my gym.

They should have told me earlier-there is an alternative to Body Pump. Jimmy Kimmel’s HO BO!

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And the winner is?

Tomorrow is Oscar night. Here is a compilation of every classic movie line that has been repeated by most of us at one time or another. At 10 minutes plus, it is kind of long, but worth the time to view. It’s show time!

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The New Geography……..

Or why Johnny does not know a damn thing about the world. Also known as, “The world according to Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin”:

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A good teaching tool

For learning Hiragana. Now after 10+ years of struggling with the Japanese language-I remain convinced that starting with Romanji ( anglicized Japanese) is a bad way to go. A beginner in Nihongo should start by memorizing the Hiragana and Katakana alphabets first and then bit by bit learn Kanji with

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The organized campaign…….

“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.”- Charles Bukowski For those who take the time to research it,  several things about the Wisconsin governor’s battles with

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