Far East Cynic

Descent into Darkness, part 1

I have not been posting much this week because I have been watching episodes of The Man in the High Castle. Without giving away too much of the plot, Season 3 is finding the story going more to the science fiction roots that Phillip K. Dick laid for it. That’s

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What he said.

I’m in Austria this weekend, enjoying a land with beautiful mountains, trains that run on time, and has good beer and excellent outdoor activities. There really is not the time to comment on the abomination of a confirmation process that occurred today and during this week. Suffice it to say,

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While Mr. Madison weeps

Like a lot of Americans, I had the misfortune to watch the travesty that was the hearings on Brett fucking Kavanaugh last week. I really wasn’t inclined to watch them, rather I was more of a mind to wait till I read the transcripts afterward. But the S.O., surprisingly, wanted

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This. For the win

I had an extremely busy day today. And I am having to make some arrangments for next month while operating in a vacuum due to the approaching end of the fiscal year. And Trump suddenly announces he’s going to have his yearly press conference today at 5 PM Eastern. This can’t

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So then this happened.

Even when the Pussy Grabber in chief tries to act in a restrained manner, somehow, some way, he always just fucks it up. Today of course was no exception. Donald Trump, stand-up comedian: Fitting as it is to see a truly disgusting human being mocked as he should be, the

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Will Smith said it.

There is a huge hurricane bearing down on the east coast of the United States. And from President Asterisk ( as in *not elected by the majority of the voters), provided us with these words of comfort: Oh really? So riddle me this your orangeness, so how come your own

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The Barbarians are inside the gates.

THIS IS NOT NORMAL. THIS IS NOT HOW AMERICA IS SUPPOSED TO BE.

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Dear John, an open letter to Mr. John Kelly.

Probably one of the most disturbing things about the advent of the current dark times we live in is to see the number of people selling their souls to the demon that is Trump and villainy he espouses. For the prior military folks such as John Kelly, the sin is

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Ramsau in Berchtesgarden

There is a LOT to talk about, most particularly Mr. Kelly’s abomination of a press conference on Thursday. He should have stayed away from the microphone and heeded some good advice about his boss. It’s practically a saying from the old country: If you elect a raging sociopath with a dead soul, don’t

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Still crazy, after a couple of years.

That would be Scott Adams. Aging artist of the Dilbert comic strip who has turned into a brain-dead slug and all around reprehensible person. At least we can take solace in the fact that more and more people are coming to understand how loathsome he is, as both a political prognosticator and as

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