Far East Cynic

Going Nordo

Walking up the brow this weekend and going haze gray and underway. No wait a minute, the ship is white. How about , “Bright white and out of sight!”? Either way posting will be non-existent for a bit. ( again). But I could not let the good news / bad

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Absolutely, positively, just a great day for America

Because Scott Walker has been banished back to Wisconsin, there hopefully to meet the front end of a high speed freight train.  

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Day late and more than a couple of dollars short

For beer and babes. My apologies. I wish I could say its because I got a better offer-but that would require the S.O. to actual remember that she is supposed to have sex.  But one can still admire this: And drink some of this:

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Not liking the competition

Back when I was in Japan, I remember vividly the complaints of Western Women, evil arch enemy of all us great guys who savored living there, complaining about us coming down with “Yellow Fever”.  Now it seems technology is going to replicate that cultural conflict on a grand scale: A campaign has

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Recent Reading

Besides the volume of recent work, I have been deeply involved in several books recently. Not really an excuse for my lack of steady posting, but it did provide a different sort of diversion. Below are my reviews of three of the best of the group. ( I have finished

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Sea Credit

For the record, my sea duty counter when I retired stood @ 5 years, 7 months and 21 days. Since I was in aviation, that time was all embarked on US Navy vessels and most of it was underway. So it would seem more than odd that I am actually looking

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Writer’s Bloc

Not much posting. As E   @   L, points out, some of it is due to “too much time on Famebook.” But most of it is due to the fact, that while I have a lot of ideas, I have little desire to write them down. Maybe I am

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The wrong people are winning.

Well, now that really bad things are going on, it’s probably time for me to get back to work. I have a lot to say about a lot of things-but just can’t seem to either find the time or the volition to address them. But I just wanted to point

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Out and about

It’s been a month since I have posted. I have been busy. No excuse to be sure-but its the truth. During that time a lot has happened, much of it comment worthy-and if you are big reader like I am, you have probably read a lot of the commentary on

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When is a crime just a crime?

Its been a month since I have posted. I have been busy. No excuse to be sure-but its the truth. During that time a lot has happened, much of it comment worthy-and if you are big reader like I am, you have probably read a lot of the commentary on

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