Far East Cynic

The great surrender

When the story of this third decade of the 21st century is told ( if it ever will be), the level of the United States’ response to a worldwide pandemic will stand out as one of its worst failures. The laggard and selfish response of a significant industrialized power, who

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Stephen Colbert nails it.

By highlighting the absurdity of the GOP attempts to gaslight the nation: Over at Trump’s propaganda network, they appear pretty unhappy about it. Gutfield is terrible. Kudos, however, to Betty Cracker for finding this and reporting on it. I dislike the expression “a hit dog will holler” because no one

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A year later and the danger still lurks close by

It has been a year since the unwarranted and thoroughly evil insurrection against the Capitol occurred. “A mob breaking windows, kicking in doors, breaching the Capitol. American flags on poles being used as weapons, as spears. Fire extinguishers being thrown at the heads of police officers. A crowd that professes

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A picture is worth a thousand words.

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a festive holiday season, well, at least as joyful as one could be in the shadow of the continuing disaster that is COVID and the unacceptable US response to it. Just a reminder of a couple of current facts: Even if Omicron is

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Happy Boxing Day!

When I lived in Europe and had a British TV service ( which had far better programming than my American counterpart), I enjoyed the day after Christmas. In Britain and many parts of the Commonwealth, Boxing Day was initially an additional holiday in the Christmas tide meant to give gifts

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Recent Reading

2021 is refusing to be a decent year, it seems, what with now the omicron surge of the COVID virus and the determined refusal of so many people to take public health measures seriously. It’s a shame that so many people are having to deal with this at a time

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I’ve more than earned the right to feel the rage that I feel.

Without a doubt, the last few months have been depressing, to say the least. First came the Delta resurgence, which hit many places – even ones that were here to fore considered “safe.” Then, it was made worse in states like Florida and Texas, where their governments just turned a

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The great resignation is not what the oligarchs think it is.

One of the things that led me away from the Republican party forever was its descent into madness – punctuated by a fiendish adaptation of cruelty and selfishness. What I could not abide, as one who actually has made a study of economics, is the way they blithely dismissed the

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Unlinked and out. The steady decline of Linked In.

According to Linked In’s own mission statement, the purpose of Linked In is: ” is simple: connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful. … Today, LinkedIn leads a diversified business with revenues from membership subscriptions, advertising sales, and recruitment solutions under the leadership of Ryan Roslansky.” If

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Waving the bloody shirt.

On Twitter a couple of days ago, a brilliant guy named David Neiwert published a long Twitter thread on the tactic that conservatives and their deranged followers have used to discredit valid criticism of the atrocities they turn a blind eye to. The tactic is known as “waving the bloody

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