No, not THAT fisherman……….. It is Hanabi (fireworks) season here in Japan. That means from middle of July through the end of August you can see a different firework display every weekend-provided you don’t mind riding on a train with 1000’s of new found friends. Tonight was the one near
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Mountain Runner and Tom Barnett ask and answer a really good question: If the surge is working, why are we still losing? Barnett goes to the heart of the question that really bothers me-namely if the surge is going so well, why are we being told that American troops will
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SJS thought he was going to give me a pass on this meme, but little did he know I had already been tagged by Mili with essentially the same meme. I was just ignoring her till now. “List eight habits or facts about yourself, then tag eight more people” Now
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Its not just me that is concerned. So is Hemlock: RUPERT MURDOCH buys Dow Jones, and I am privileged to be sent an advance copy of tomorrow’s edition of the best reported, best edited and visually most Victorian newspaper in the world…. Back to the SCMP? Subscribe in a reader
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Alicia: We’re not exactly the Washington Post, okay? Michael McDougal: No, we’re not. We run stupid headlines because we think they’re funny. We run maimings on the front page because we got good art. And I spend three weeks bitching about my car because it sells papers. But at least
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On my back across the pond to the correct side of the International Date Line. United has surpassed my already low expectations by dropping me into SFO 2 hours late. Fortunately I planned for this, having done more than a coupld OJ esque runs to the gate before. So I
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Finished with the meetings today and getting everything arranged for the exercise in pain next month in Korea. Talked to the S.O. today. I have never, ever , heard her talk so much about politics so much before. She even e-mailed me to tell me about LDP getting their ass
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In Japan. Today was voting for the upper house of the Diet. Just got off the phone with the S.O. I asked her who she voted for and she told me MINSHUTO. (Democratic Party of Japan). She said she wanted to do anything that would be opposed to the Abe
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