Far East Cynic

Porto

In May of this year, the S.O and I went to Porto Portugal and to Lisbon. It was an awesome trip. Spending some time on the Douro River is a great thing to do. The scenery is great, the food and wine excellent, and its off the beaten path (somewhat)

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While Mr. Madison weeps

Like a lot of Americans, I had the misfortune to watch the travesty that was the hearings on Brett fucking Kavanaugh last week. I really wasn’t inclined to watch them, rather I was more of a mind to wait till I read the transcripts afterward. But the S.O., surprisingly, wanted

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Varsity Play

I’m working on a long post about the Supreme Court mess and the plight of Mr. Brett fucking Kavanaugh, ESQ and Supreme Court Justice wannabe. Hopefully, I can get it out tonight. But this morning I have to drive the S.O. up to Heidelberg. It’s a beautiful day to do

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This. For the win

I had an extremely busy day today. And I am having to make some arrangments for next month while operating in a vacuum due to the approaching end of the fiscal year. And Trump suddenly announces he’s going to have his yearly press conference today at 5 PM Eastern. This can’t

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So then this happened.

Even when the Pussy Grabber in chief tries to act in a restrained manner, somehow, some way, he always just fucks it up. Today of course was no exception. Donald Trump, stand-up comedian: Fitting as it is to see a truly disgusting human being mocked as he should be, the

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Pitch Meeting

Happy Saturday! Tomorrow it’s time to make the jump back across the pond back to Germania. Plenty of political news to dissect, especially the current effort to fuck up the Supreme Court for generations. But sometimes you just need to laugh and for that, I very often turn to the

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It’s like a foreign language

One thing that is truly depressing about our current era is that it is virtually impossible to have a conversation anymore about issues of national importance. To take a position on something is to invite immediate attack and its become just about impossible to hold a semi literate conversation in

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Flat Lining

Greetings from Mike Pence’s hometown, Columbus Indiana. It’s been over 30 years since I was last in Indiana. It’s clear I have not really missed anything. I was here in 1986 in Indianapolis for the Indianapolis Air Show. Had a very entertaining evening afterward at the Adams Mark Hotel. It’s

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Will Smith said it.

There is a huge hurricane bearing down on the east coast of the United States. And from President Asterisk ( as in *not elected by the majority of the voters), provided us with these words of comfort: Oh really? So riddle me this your orangeness, so how come your own

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Recent Reading

Since I was not blogging for the last 10 months I had to do something. Besides dealing with the hassles caused by vindictive assholes who think they have the right to harass a private citizen, I did a lot of reading and watching. Regarding watching first, if you have not

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