Far East Cynic

Pass it on……..

I came across this little dissertation over at the League of Disgruntled Majors . This post is dedicated to my long suffering friends on a certain aging, round bottom vessel, the only amphibious ship in Yokosuka, who are long suffering under the leadership (and I use the term loosely) of one

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Does the straight talk express stop here?

Even if Obama were to become President ( something I doubt)-there is already a town named after him. You can get there on JR!

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What he wishes he could have said.

I must confess I did not see the Mitt Romney dropout coming. I’m surprised Sean Hannity did not commit suicide on his show today as a result. And of course he did it at that annual gathering of the mentally deranged “conservatives” known as CPAC-the annual ritual when the uncaring and the

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Blog birthday.

This blog is 3 years old today. I began this blog out of a sense of frustration responding to a huge personal disappointment in my life; created by nothing, but sheer stupidity on the part of other people……..on the part of the “big bad establishment”. My disgust with their simplistic

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Quote of the day

Eating my lunch right now, nursing myself back to health. For some reason I have been too lazy to change the channel and right now, as a result, Hannity and Colmes are on TV discussing John McCain and his conservative credentials. Colmes posed this question: “Who does this guy have

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Reason 467 why I hate AFN!

Because you don’t get to see things like this. Enjoy: It hurts to laugh hard when you have a cold!

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Down for the count…….

Well, its is official. 2 weeks of freezing my ass off in Korea have caught up with me. I’m a sick puppy. All this while trying to get some things done! I’m learning the fine art of dragging-and I do mean dragging-my lard ass around between naps! Super Tuesday today.

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Wish these guys wrote for AFN!

Bud Light Super Bowl Commercial Too Racy For TV – Watch the top videos of the week here

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Super Bowl post…..

Not really liking either team-decided to support the Giants as they had the better back story. So 17-14 pretty much made my day! Made me think of this video that Mark turned me onto: All the news that fits!

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Be careful what you eat…….

And no, that is not a reference to the the item referred to in the previous post! However, here in Japan, there has been a big scandal about Chinese produced gyoza(Fried Dumpling) that as it turns out. Seems initially 10 people became sick after eating the product, produced in Tenshin China-and

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