I will never understand women. Not that understanding them has ever really been a goal-merely securing their daily cooperation will suffice for me. However, trying to understand how their twisted little minds work, is beyond any normal comprehension. Backing up. On Easter Sunday, the S.O. went to Mass with me.
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Back in the day-shuttling from work to Tokyo for Japanese class-one of my favorite things to see upon rolling into the Black Lion pub in Meguro, was to pick up the latest edition of Japanzine. ( The Black Lion was right around the corner from my Japanese class-thus it was
Continue readingWhy the National Review Online survives…..
And why Jonah Goldberg has not been burned at the stake. (His book sucks by the way….). Because not every news magazine can be as good as The Economist. P.S. The Financial Times has Goldberg pegged pretty well too………
Continue readingDear Curtis…….
It was either answer you or play golf this afternoon. Golf won.
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Phil: I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster and drank pina coladas. At sunset we made love like sea otters. *That* was a pretty good day. Why couldn’t I get that day over and over and over…-From the movie Groundhog Day. Today I
Continue readingI've got to see this movie….
Which was pointed out to me by Japan Probe: The movie is called Hariymaya Bridge-and it appears to capture a lot of the issues involved in Gaijin marriage with Japanese. The story concerns an American man who must travel to rural Japan after his estranged son dies there in a
Continue readingI’ve got to see this movie….
Which was pointed out to me by Japan Probe: The movie is called Hariymaya Bridge-and it appears to capture a lot of the issues involved in Gaijin marriage with Japanese. The story concerns an American man who must travel to rural Japan after his estranged son dies there in a
Continue readingEven the Korean postal service gets it right……..
Taken from Japan Probe: The South Korean government has been pushing for English speakers to stop using the name “Sea of Japan” in favor of the Korea-centric “East Sea” name, but it seems that the South Korean postal service isn’t checking the maps it uses for its posters: As it
Continue readingTone deaf……..
If you make a decision, and have no overlying evidence to change your mind-stick to it. This, is just plain stupid. Worse, its picking a fight that makes your other fights that much harder to win. WASHINGTON (AP) – Widening an explosive debate on torture, President Barack Obama on Tuesday
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Once, just once-I’d like to tear down some really stupid myths about taxes. The one big one I’d like to put to bed once and for all is the line you hear repeated over and over by people who should know better, that 48% of Americans do not pay taxes.
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