Far East Cynic

No post yesterday, the S.O. was really sick and I had to take her to the doctor. Talk about lousy timing, we are leaving for the US next week and the only place she feels like traveling is to the room with porcelain in it. Got her some medicine and

This morning I received the sad news that “The Boo” , Lt Col. T.N. Courvoisie passed from this world. Now to most of you that means very little, but to those of us who had a proper military education; before the forces of feminism and political correctness creeped in; before

Dear immigrant rights activists, Are you guys out of your f**king minds? Who told you it was a good idea to advertise a non-English version of a song that even your supporters believe should be spoken and sung in English? This is like taking a can of gasoline and pouring

You Are Las Vegas Wild and uninhibited, you enjoy all of life’s vices.You’re a total hedonist, especially with sex, gambling, and drinking.You shine brightly every night, but you do the ultimate walk of shame each morning. Famous Las Vegas residents: Wayne Newton, Howard Hughes, Penn & Teller, Siegfried & Roy

Woke up this morning to a cloudy overcast looking seriously like rain. Accordingly, my golf plans were aborted. So I enjoyed the peace and quiet until the S.O. woke up. With my upcoming move, she is going to be a unique problem…she’ll be going with me, mostly because I’m too

They could pay Fran Obrien’s rent for the next 100 years……………… (Go see Fuzzy Bear Lioness for the whole and complete story of more corporate greed….) Maybe they should have to pay a special tax just for that. Or at the very least former Exxon CEO should have to forfeit

You vill blog our way, or not at all! Expat at Large pointed out the fact that the freedom loving people at Google used their powerful business position to shut down a blog it did not like. Mango Sauce is a blog about living and loving in Thailand and has

You vill blog our way, or not at all! Expat at Large pointed out the fact that the freedom loving people at Google used their powerful business position to shut down a blog it did not like. Mango Sauce is a blog about living and loving in Thailand and has

In what may prove to be the most damn fool thing I’ve done in my life, I’m changing jobs. So we’ll see how my blogging holds up for the next few months. My new job is still here in Japan, but it is vastly different from my current position and

Finally back and past my jet lag. American Airlines sucks the big one! Suffice it to say they jerked me around yet again. Then again, some of it is the fault of the Texan who rolled his SUV on Highway 183 just west of DFW, making me almost miss the