Far East Cynic

What was it all for?

June 23rd this year is a big day. Its a big day because the United Kingdom is about to potentially make a really stupid decision and leave the EU. ( A really stupid decision). It’s also a day that I made a really stupid personal decision and it set the

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The Queen’s unruly subjects.

John Oliver explains in good form why the UK should leave the shitty politics , as well as the political assassinations, to their crazy American cousins on the wrong side of the Atlantic: Since we have a British satellite system, we are getting to see a lot of the debate

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Worth reading and a good follow up

To the earlier discussion about gun control. As a part of my job, I monitor the Israeli English press and where I can get them, translations of Hebrew newspapers. There was an excellent article in The Jerusalem Post this week about the Israeli approach to firearms and the American one.

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Good News for Cleveland…..

Maybe Donald, the talking yam, will make America great again. Certainly , Cleveland is looking forward to a good time in July: Last month, artist Spencer Tunick put out a call for women to pose nude at the Republican National Convention this summer. They’ll be part of his latest large-scale art installation: “Everything She Says

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The four horsemen are saddling up

The four horsemen of the apocalypse that is. As if having Donald Trump on a presidential ballot were not proof enough the Anti-Christ is alive and walking among us, now comes a day when I actually agree with a Republican Congressman from Mississippi. Repent! The hour of judgment is at hand!

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Blind squirrels and acorns

Do sometimes get together. If you have been coming here for a decent interval you know that I hold both the National Review and the Weekly Standard in utter contempt. I read them to find out how the ill informed voter thinks and to find satire worthy materials. But every

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With whatever strength is given to me, I shall oppose him to the last.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it. -Albert Einstein One of the narratives that seems to be making the rounds these days is the idea that in this election, “both

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The invisible hand kills people

Besides all the other things that are at stake in this current Presidential election; trivial things like the survival of the United States as a democracy and survival of a free press, is also trying to put a nail in the coffin of those folks who believe that the “market

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Thank God it’s Friday!

As a part of the conference I am hosting I had to go to a social event last night. After a couple of large hefeweizens, a member of our group brought up the subject of the demon that is Donald Trump. Like throwing chum in the water, I took the

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An idea that is long overdue.

If you have been a long time reader here, you will know that one of my pet peeves is that the Navy has more flag officers than it has ships.  A few years ago I picked a fight with one of the Naval Institute’s   “preferred customers” on this very subject. Well, it took

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