Far East Cynic

The Nancy Kissel case is over. The papers having wrung every bit of juicy newsprint out if they could, are now free to go back to their normal pursuits. As for Nancy, well she probably needs to take up reading and become friendly with the prison matron…..she is going to

I was rightly reprimanded for an extremely poor attempt at levity in a previous post. I rightfully deserved to get my head slapped and to anyone I offended I offer a sincere and heartfelt apology. Waking up this morning is like reading a tale of biblical disaster. Consider if you

Yesterday was the official kickoff of the election season. As a result the election speaker trucks were on the road: That is a DPJ（民主党） truck preaching the message about why Koizumi needs to go. Before then I had come across a Communist Party truck and all they could talk about

This post is verbatum from Soldiers for the Truth, Hack’s (former) web site that is still being maintained by some truly great Americans. The most recent posting has words of warning for Rummy and his legions of sycophants: An Interview with Lt. Gen. Hal Moore, Combat Commander Part I By

Tonight, Casablanca was on TV. As I have noted before, I love that movie, as it symbolizes a time when Hollywood made movies : a) with a plot and b) actually had some quality acting in them. Also its not a PC movie. I was thinking about that the other

The S.O. and I debated whether to play golf today. I finally threw her a bone and offered to take her up to Tohoku ( northern Japan when I go up there next week on business). So with that resolved, we went to play golf. I’m glad I did. I

Nothing pithy to write today, I am afraid. I’m just too tired to get anything useful out. It was a good day though, a nice day just a lot of fun. The S.O. and I quickly kissed and made up since both of us wanted to play golf today. Can’t

It’s the little victories that count. Tonight, I carried on an argument with the S.O. (almost)entirely in Japanese. ( It was not an argument really, I’d call it more of an explanation. When the chair comes flying at you, as it did with my ex…now that’s an argument!). I’m so

Well its less than 9 hours before Typhoon 11 is supposed to get here. (??????.It seems to be heading right for the Kanto Plain: Came home, cleaned off the balcony and made the S.O. a nice spaghetti dinner. She is in a nice mood tonight so if I stop this