Far East Cynic

Sitting at Narita, steeling myself for the long ride in the cattle car, Business class is full-no way to upgrade……..some day I’ll have the money to buy that First Class ticket…or own my own jet. However before I left for the train, I checked my mail. My new books from

Short weekend trip, for personal and professional reasons to Dallas, Texas. Things are in the air, just cannot be revealed at this time. Whether these are the right things for moi……only time will tell. Making a quick stop in SFO first. I’ll blog about politics from there. Seems appropriate. And

Ah yes, its summit time once again. That lovely time when the President of China will sit down first with the President that matters most to him. (drumroll………….) The President of Microsoft, of course.As for that other guy, the Commander in Chief of the United States, there’s always time to

I was going to move on today, but the Phibian went and provoked me with yet another defense of the Secretary of Defense. However since “The Donald” is going to be around for a while, and hopefully the “biased” media will keep up the argument. The “unbiased” Wall Street Journal

First, Donald Rumsfeld is not going anywhere before November. The people over at Foreign Policy’s blog offer some cogent reasons why. In fact, they point out that: You can’t swing a cat without hitting a report that Don Rumsfeld is embattled, under fire, taking flak, facing a mutiny etc. But

“You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go”.- Oliver Cromwell to the Long parliament. Yesterday the S.O. had to work. So I stayed home and got some things done

Short post. No post yesterday due to needing sleep. Today I went to Iwo Jima. What an experience. To walk on that hallowed ground….in the company of Marines no less!I felt privileged to be allowed to tag along. With all the talk about “diversity” in the services these days, it

Well, this time safely ensconced in Word, I will try to do another Iranian post. If reading Seymour Hersh was scary, reading the news today was every bit even scarier. The Iranians it seems, or at least their ideological zealot of a president have seemed to come to the conclusion,

I had a post started about the Hersh article. Twice I typed what I thought were some good words. And twice G**Damn Blogger ate them! I quit. Go here and read for yourself what some others are saying. Damn you Blogger! And why it is hard to take Hersh at

Its amazing what 12 hours of sleep with no beer in you will do for a person. Came back to Japan yesterday and back to the usual nonsense. Went to bed early and slept and slept. Which was also what I did Sunday night, had been into Wanchai early, went