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Meanwhile back in the Year One……
When you belonged to no one. You didn't stand a chance, son. Jethro Tull is poised to release a Sequel to their 1972 album-and motto of GOP politics these days-Thick as a Brick. TAAB2 – Whatever...
View ArticleThose damned gaikokujin
Courtesy of Fucked Gaijin comes this little tidbit of yet another less than flattering portrait of foreigners in Japan: The myth that Japan is a homogenous society lost its veracity long ago. With...
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Fasching
The S.O. and I went to the Fasching parade today. Fasching is carnival season. Originally it was a Pagan festival which came out of ancient Rome or Greece. In recent centuries, however, it has become...
View ArticleChristopher Hitchens
I wanted to wait a while before writing about the genuine sadness I felt when I heard about the death of Christopher Hitchens. He was a great writer, a man who understood how to paint a picture with...
View ArticleShe looks kinda familiar to me……
Like someone you might have met at Impanema or Peyton Place in Singapore. ( If you need a geography lesson-go here.) Actually, I take that back-this woman is not nearly as sincere as some of the...
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Snow? In Palma?
Greetings from the European Deep Freeze: A woman walks along Palma de Mallorca's promenade during a snowfall, on the Spanish Balearic island of Mallorca, on February 4, 2012. More pictures here. Temp...
View ArticleI’m still here……
You greasy bastards. Still one of the greatest movie lines of all time. Its also a good theme for my blog birthday-which occurs today. This blog is 7 years old today. A milestone of sorts-and the...
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By request.
Commenter Cupajoe wanted a rant against marriage. By amazing coincidence-I'm feeling right down on that subject tonight. Ask, and ye shall receive: Lovingly stolen from Expat at Large!
View ArticleMeathead Flag Officers
Tom Ricks has a great guest post up about the military's propensity to create a lot of its own problems: Never have so few been supervised by so many doing so little. For the last ten years, the terms...
View ArticleA long strange trip….
This is what you get when a bunch of Hollywood scriptwriters are sitting around with a bag of weed, a bong, several bottles of Scotch and time on their hands. Palin vs Nazi's from the moon! Space...
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More Fasching Fun
The S.O. and I went to a Pferdemarkt today. ( Horse Market). It was up in Leonberg-a very charming old town northwest of Stuttgart. They have a four day festival-part of which is a Pferde Markt or...
View ArticleWomen who really ought to be in the news……
But for some reason-Western feminists pay little or no attention to. Shocked, I tell you-absolutely shocked. The case of the maids trying to win right of abode in Hong Kong is moving towards its next...
View ArticleKind of sad really……
That there are people who actually defend Andrew Breitbart. Especially after the unbelievable freak show that was CPAC this year-and we got to see the bearded maniac come completely unglued: And people...
View ArticleThe Bishops are wrong
And its really sad-because I admire the Catholic Church on so many things. But I won't go with them on this. Especially since the church's teachings on sex are totally screwed up. The President...
View ArticleI am going to beat this horse some more…
Because the more I read the stupidity of most so called "conservative" commenters on the subject of having insurance companies do their job-the angrier I get. If you want yet another example of why...
View ArticleI love it when I am right………
Yesterday I wrote:Don't kid yourself, this is just the opening act in a war that is designed to, at one and the same time, pervert the meaning of the First Amendment-and at the same time empower...
View ArticleWhere’s Waldo?
Friday night-over a US holiday week-which is the first one I have gotten since Christmas. So this morning the S.O. and I boarded a plane-and arrived where? 1) This is city is the largest city in the...
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Partying like it’s 1453.
Today was a full day here in Istanbul. We were up early, ate breakfast out-took the bus and the tram to Sultanmahment Station and saw all the usuals: Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque, and Topkapi Palace. The...
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Underway on the Bosporus.
Long day today and dog tired. Not sure why since we spent a few hours here:
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So its about the children, eh?
Also known as-Why Mark Steyn sucks. Phib presumes to lecture me on what issues are really about-sadly I missed most of his lecture because I was having a good time over the weekend-sightseeing and...
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