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Try getting this out of your head…

  This commercial is making the rounds in Japan. Sure beats talking about politics!   Recruit publishes Job Guides in Japan. Their magazines with job listings always have off beat names.

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That was then…..

And this is now. Let me go back to a comfortable analogy for me – sports… basketball. I use it because you’re naïve if you don’t see the national full-court press picking away right now.   Seems the...

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Robert McNamara……

Died today. Leaving Donald Rumsfeld now in the unenviable position of longest living , really bad, Secretary of Defense. ( Quote shamelessy stolen from my Canadian counterpart). Most of the coverage...

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Beethoven and Japan.

  Fucked Gaijin points out: Every national culture has its weird obsessions, and it seems as if Japan’s oddball closet is more crowded than most ? Pokémon, Elvis Presley and Hello Kitty are just a few...

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Another obituary.

  Spike tells us Compuserve is dead. I was a Compuserve customer-a long time ago in a galaxy far away.

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Road trip

Three cities, three days. Evenings spent traversing between them. On the way to one of them today, went past the spot where John Wilkes Booth died. The Garrett farm house is now gone-and its location...

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Shh! Don’t tell Lex’s readers this………..

They will go even more high order! Seems that delving into the facts about Saint Sarah is not allowed. It gets in the way of the narrative: One of the chief reasons Sarah Palin has given for resigning...

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Home again.

Home again. Long day spent in pursuit of airplanes-walking between gates, waiting to get delayed. There seems to be an un-written rule for me in the Charlotte Airport. My gates will always be as far...

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Not sugar coating it.

 Joe Galloway on Robert McNamara.   Well, the aptly named Robert Strange McNamara has finally shuffled off to join LBJ and Dick Nixon in the 7th level of Hell. McNamara was the original bean-counter —...

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Taking a break…….

 Since I just got the lovely fucking news a few hours ago that I have to work on a Sunday. To say I’m not pleased is an understatement…………… The S.O. is not pleased either……….. One of the biggest...

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Don’t hold your breath…..

Waiting for Donald Rumsfeld to apologize. The parallels between Rumsfeld and McNamara are strong — up to a point. Both men took charge of the Pentagon bent on exercising greater civilian control over...

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What happens when foreigners in Tokyo need beer money……

Stupid commercials like this.      

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Crunch time…

Long day today-worked all day, On a plane tonight. Got a lot of irons in the fire so posting will be short.  

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More than meets the eye.

Busy, busy, busy! But not busy enough to notice that Gundam is at Odaiba in Tokyo:     P.S. when I first met the S.O-we had a couple of very romantic dates in Odaiba. On my dresser-snuggled in...

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Farewell to a friend…….

Walter Cronkite is dead. To those of us of a certain age-who now have to confront the daily morass that is the news media these days-not having Walter Cronkite on the scene is just a tremendous loss....

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Maybe I will reconsider

 I was thinking about buying a Kindle. Now I think I will wait a while. People who bought Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm for their Kindle were surprised to discover that it had disappeared from their...

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Why I love golf…..

 Because its a great week when Tiger doesn’t make the cut and Tom Watson makes it to a play off.   TURNBERRY, Scotland — Tom Watson squandered a chance to become golf’s oldest major champion. The...

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Idle musings on the moon, America-and the death of optimism.

Today is July 20th. Only proper to write about the moon landings, right? Its being written over at plenty of blogs this day-and its is an anniversary of a great achievement. Except-as Tom Wolfe points...

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Quote of the day…..

 I got this in an e-mail today. Worth repeating: "PowerPoint has largely become affirmative action for the inarticulate"

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For the record-

 I hate on line courses. Knee deep in one this week-that has to be finished by tomorrow. Where the hell is the fast forward button on this thing? Blogging to return this weekend.  

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