Far East Cynic

What if? An excursion into Alternate History

It has been two years since I posted here – primarily because I have been writing on other platforms, allowing me to monetize my content. ( El Greedo strikes again!). However, I have kept this website alive and will continue to do so, albeit with some rules and editorial provisions.

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Great advice.

I heard this mentioned several years ago from a different source. I still think it has merit. @trinkets_hawaii Yup!🤣 #trinketshawaii #trinketshawaiiessentials #keribells🌺 #wafakels✈️ #wafakelssquad ♬ Trying to hurt me by bringing up my past – Tonya De’laine

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No tickets to paradise.

We’re on the train to BangkokAboard the Thailand ExpressWe’ll hit the stops along the wayWe only stop for the best We are not boarding that train anytime soon. Of that, I am pretty sure. You can thank the orange monster for his colossal incompetence for that. And even though Soi

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It was a test of a nation – and the nation failed it.

This has been one hell of a week. We veered from 1918 to 1968 with a dash of 1881 thrown in for good measure. At this point, I am so disgusted with my own country. I cannot stand it. The country needs a 9.9 scale earthquake in the Gulf of

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Questions that need to be asked.

This being April 1st, in a normal world, it would be time for a fun post poking fun at something or playing a bloggers version of an internet prank. But these are not normal times, and there is nothing funny about the current world situation. So instead, I ‘d love

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Someone should say, “I told you this would happen!”

Because back in the early 2000’s there were plenty of folks who warned us bad things would happen to the US Navy. And now in 2017 and the nearby years before, those very bad things have happened. Especially the tragic incidents on the USS Jonh McCain and USS Fitzgerald. That

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Drafted back into service

And like a moth to the flame, with Trump proving every day that he was far worse than anyone could have ever imagined, I’ve decided to heed Victor Lazlo’s advice: The last six months have been so utterly crazy, and there are just too many things to say that I

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Goodbye and farewell

I regret nothing. There seems to be an impression among some people that a Facebook or Twitter account is about what pleases them and what they want to read, rather than the message(s) the owner of these accounts wishes to convey. And that, if those messages are ones that the

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A few observations by David Frum

David Frum sums up well what the great darkness we are heading into .   @davidfrum I think we will be returning to this a lot over the next few years. https://t.co/eVhYhNhlXz — Noah Kristula-Green (@Noahkgreen) November 12, 2016

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Barbarians at the gate

Tomorrow is, without a doubt, the most frightening election I have ever experienced in my adult life. As John Cole put it: “The best way I can compare my mood right now is the trash compactor scene in Star Wars, where I am living in a fetid world of Trump

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