Far East Cynic

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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The 11th day of the 9th month of the 17th year.

The 17th year since the disaster of 9-11 occurred. Today, of course, will be a day of remembrances and memorials to the 3000 Americans who perished on that day, and the many more both in and out of the service who perished as a result of that day and the

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The old saying proves true.

That saying from my old squadron, way back, long ago, in a galaxy far away. If you are not in hack at least once a cruise, you are not carrying your share of the load. Our friends in the Royal Navy are proving that phrase true: Six sailors assigned to

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Corsica

During the last week of August and over the holiday in September, the S.O. and I traveled to the island of Corsica, or Haute Corse, as the French refer to it. We had wanted to go someplace different and we wanted to be on the Mediterranean Sea.  Corsica delivered for

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