So, as they point out at Balloon-Juice, Port or Sherry? Spanish Ballads or Fado Songs? Lisbon or Madrid?
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I have a lot I would like to write about. I just have no spirit or energy to do so. I've been busy at work getting ready for a meeting next month. And at home I have been dealing with S.O.'s increasingly frivolous views of life and doing her womanly
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The Germans are running over the Greeks. The score does not show it-but Germany is dominating the game. So. Sausage and beer or souvalki and ouzou? Everyone in our neighborhood is inside watching the game. UPDATE! The final score makes the game sound closer than it was-sure the Greeks
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This will ring true if you have every spent any time in Japan, especially if you spent some time around non-military expats. I made a point to do this when I was first in Tokyo and met some amazing people. But I still heard just about all of these things.
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Sorry for the lack of posting. Guests for work in town and damn the luck, have had to eat out and drink beer twice in a row. Got home tonight to watch the second half of the England- Ukraine Game. I have been watching as much of the tournament as
Continue readingNavy Times Fails Again.
The word for the day is: "pussification". It would seem Navy Times enjoys it. Other, more rational members among us-not so much. When I saw this cover, I wanted to just reach through the screen and strangle somebody. Of course, as it turned out-the cover picture was nothing. What really
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Women have no business going to Ranger School. There! I said it-and I'll keep saying it. There are roles for men and women to play in society, and Mr. Kilcullen asks a very good question. Pity, no one will listen to him. It has occurred to me that when the
Continue readingTrolls can be dealt with.
This video is lovingly dedicated to all those commenters who can't seem to discuss a subject on its merits alone. Like the fine group of folks who dropped by here in January. Warning NSFW!
Continue readingOne more post about the Diamond Jubilee.
As I have noted before-I am an unrepentant Anglophile and fan of the British Empire. We have gotten to see great coverage of the celebrations on our British Satellite system. Even as an American you should be struck by the difference between the respect shown here to the Queen and
Continue readingOk, I guess it is time to get down to it.
WARNING NOTICE! What follows here is very much at odds with what Americans consider to be "conventional morality". If frank discussion of relationships-with an eye toward advocating the destruction of traditional monogamy and marriage bothers you-you might want to take a pass. "Pamela didn't believe in the least in
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