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I checked into a hotel and it had a banner saying “Welcome Gonzaga Alumni Association”. Since I am stuck here tonight-wonder if that means I can score free beer.  Here are some more of the S.O.’s thoughts on what is going on in Japan: Near Tokyo, earthquake cloud was found

Well, that’s it. I am stuck in Denver for the second time. They had absolutely no way to get me a seat out till tomorrow night when my first flight got canx. So- it’s time to do some laundry then hit the streets!

I am getting tired of reporters referring to Fukushima Daichi # 2, 3, or 4. The name of the plant is not Fukushima Daichi. Dai is a counter used in Japanese that is the equvalent of “Number”. So it is Fukushima Dai-ichi, Dai-ni, Dai-san, or Dai-yon. Fukushima no dai ichi

On a trip all this week. A weeks traveling beats a lot of things-so ergo, I am a happy man!

The S.O. talked with her mother last night. All is well-but the china stock in her mom’s house is down a bit. A fair amount of things came flying off the shelves. She was all right but shocked by the earthquake. Many dishes were broken, furniture damaged, and she thought

The streaming link to NHK is proving a handy thing. I am finding watching the news direct from Japan to be far more useful than watching the American broadcast networks-which are obsessed with Fukushima Dai ichi nuclear power plant. A worry to be sure-but the sheer level of wreckage that

Tai Hei You Okina Jishin to Tsunami. Pacifc Ocean Large Earthquake and Tsunami. The S.O. has been assured by several e-mails / Facebook posts that her family is safe-although she has been unable to talk to her mother in Fukushima. We’ve been in electronic e-mail contact with her sister and

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

Usually makes really bad suggestions. It would seem she is at work again with crop of naive idealists covering the Arab world: It’s rare for me to advocate something as direct as a military action – but a no-fly zone is something we must as a nation do, and do