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Subdued fourth…
Happy Fourth of July! Here at Far East Cynic HQ, its not so happy a fourth of July. Two reasons for that. First, we said goodbye to my friend and teacher of the ways of corporate America, Al. His...
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More Books
We went to the fireworks last night at one of the literally dozens of shopping malls here in this hillbilly hell litle burgh. Fortunately the Barnes and Noble was open-the better to capitalize on...
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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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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...
View ArticleRobert 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...
View ArticleBeethoven 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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Spike tells us Compuserve is dead. I was a Compuserve customer-a long time ago in a galaxy far away.
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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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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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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 —...
View ArticleTaking 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...
View ArticleDon’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...
View ArticleCrunch time…
Long day today-worked all day, On a plane tonight. Got a lot of irons in the fire so posting will be short.
View ArticleMore 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...
View ArticleFarewell 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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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...
View ArticleWhy 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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