Far East Cynic

Elmo is one lucky boy.

And American parents are a real pain in the ass. To quote my Canadian counterpart: There’s a lot that kids can learn from Ms. Perry, such as the utility of having fantastic breasts. That’s pretty powerful and it couldn’t be more appropriate in an age of economic decay. Kids need

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Idol worshippers………

The Economist’s Lexington makes a provocative case that the Tea Baggers obsession with the Constitution and its framers has become unhealthy: Accept for argument’s sake that those who argue this way have identified the right problem. The constitution, on its own, does not provide the solution. Indeed, there is something

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Summed up well

The GOP’s pledge that is not a pledge-but a rehash of stupid ideas: One person likes it though:

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Speaking of movies…..

Flash Gordon is only one of the movies that are on my list of: “Movies I will stop and watch while channel surfing.” Here are a few more: Goodfellas ( A must in any many real man’s movie collection). Absence of Malice ( I like the story). All three Back

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Best worst movie ever……

Flash Gordon was on TV tonight-probably the only really bad movie saved by it’s soundtrack. As a result of the Queen sound track though-and all the hot babes in 70’s hairdo’s-it’s on my list of “movies I can watch again and again”. Of course, as most of you know-its best

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Tough time making ends meet…..

On 400,000 dollars a year. Professor Todd Henderson makes 445,000 dollars a year. That kind of qualifies as pretty affluent by anyones standards. However in the kind of topsy turvy world we live in nowadays-the good Dr. Henderson seems to have trouble getting to end of each and every month.

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Admin notes

I will be updating the links today. There are a bunch of dead ones over there-and they desperately need updating. Did not have the time to update while I was in Romania. For the commenters-and this is important-if you do not provide a valid e-mail address with your comment, your

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FDNF at work (and play)

The song sucks-but its nice footage of the mighty war Hummer at work.

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A rejoinder

Commentator AA stopped by to criticize my thought that the Tea Party is really not ready to do anything when and if they win control of Congress. In calling me “pathetic” ( a term I refuse to accept)-he has raised a good point. Why are they not really ready to

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Its only Ok when they do it.

Lex , it seems,  is bothered when the other side takes up the tactics of Tea Party America. Now the simple truth of it is that neither side helps its case when they resort to Nazi images and other such nonsense. As on of his commenters put it, it is

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