Far East Cynic

Its amazing what 12 hours of sleep will do for a person. While I was in Guam I got about that amount over 3 days. Last night I was in bed by 7:30……..Now if I can just remember to eat 3 squares per day and remember that beer is not

Came home from Guam today. I am tired. I’m going to have to figure out something different, I just don’t have the stamina to burn the candle at all ends like I did this trip. Guess that’s a sign of getting older. Lots of work to catch up on first,

There is a reason they tell you that staying up til 3 am drinking and then trying to make an 8:06 tee time is not a good idea………. However I made it and played some soggy golf up at Alte today. The rain here never seems to stop. Now that

I don’t make this stuff up……… That being said there sure is a lot of buffoonry going around these days. Consider a few juicy tidbits: From a few years back under the category of going the extra mile……. I can’t believe this. But it was in the Japanese paper, they

To continue with my personal crusade againstUSFSPA injustice….; discussed here, here, and here. Yesterday, I came across this little tidbit from Tom Philpott in his Military Update column at Military.com. A true example of DOD lawyer double talk if you ever heard it: To correct a point in your Military

As long as I have been around the US government in a working capacity, I have been astounded at how often the General Accounting Office (an office of Congress) f**ks things up. Today, reading Stars and Stripes I was given yet another reminder of their inability to portray an accurate

Its August and so in Japan that means two things: 1) lots of headlines about Hiroshima and Nagasaki and as the days countdown to August 15, TV shows about the War on Japanese TV. Last year they ran a drama about a family in Okinawa during World War II. This

Turned on the news to find out that King Fahd of Saudi Arabia is dead. He may as well as have been dead for the last 10 years since everyone knows it was Crown Prince Abdullah who has been exercising the power during that time. Guess the Saudi’s don’t have