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Still here.
It is crunch time on my courses right now. Plus. I am playing the popular game, "What will next year's budget be?". So go read this outstanding article by James Fallows instead.
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Recent Reading
While I was back in the land of the free and the home of the stupid and overweight, I had a chance to stumble into Barnes and Noble. This was ostensibly for the purpose of purchasing a study guide for...
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Just kill me now…..
Once again I have to apologize for the lack of posting. The S.O. and I went on a marvelous trip to Austria. And now we are back. And work got even more suckier in the interval. So, pix to follow-and...
View ArticleThe darkness that always lurks beneath the surface.
I wanted to write a quick not about the tragic loss of Robin Williams. His death will most probably be ruled a suicide. And I expect ( and in some of the worst corners of the internet-we are already...
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Can’t believe I missed it.
Yesterday was Women's Equality Day. And I totally forgot about it. I'm so depressed. After all, there are some hard facts of life: And while you are at it-get me a beer: Ok Honey? ?
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I am sorry it’s been a long time between posts. I was on travel to the US, partly for business and partly to see my son. The business days tended to be long and involved and when I got back to the...
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Tadaima!
That is what you say in Japanese when you come home. Hopefully a loving specimen of Japanese womanhood greets you with a beer and a cheery, "O kaeri nasai" when you do. We spent the last week at my...
View ArticleToo much fun
Sorry for the lack of posting. I have been enjoying my time here in Japan and reminiscing about how much fun it was. I really have missed being here. Germany is ok, but I really thought I would be...
View ArticleStill here, you greasy bastards.
Two weeks without posting is obscene. I should be doing better and I resolve to do better. However in my defense, things have been busy, I've been depressed, and I've been in a funk. A real funk-and...
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Thank goodness it is a new month. Last month was at the same time, marvelous and deeply depressing. On the marvelous front, the return to Japan was without a doubt the highlight of my year. Returning...
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Pumpkin Fest
In Ludwigsburg, they are running a Pumpkin Fest. In German the word for Pumpkin is Kurbis(with an umlaut). It's held in the garden of the palace in Ludwigsburg. Probably most amazing-besides the...
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The S.O. has had to work all this weekend, and I have been on call for my job. Basically its a payment up front for the both of us-for we will be in Austria for her birthday at the end of the month....
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The S.O. and I had a marvelous time in Austria-and for what it is worth, October is a great time to visit. The mountains are still glorious, there is a little early snow, but for us at least-the...
View ArticleAgain it comes down to how many bother to show up
Tomorrow is election day in the United States. Since I will be on my 5 year pilgrimage to the sacred soil in Charleston, I have already submitted my ballot via absentee. Fat lot of good it will do me,...
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Greetings from Frankfurt airport! I am at the beginning of my every 5 year pilgrimage, wherein I return to the sacred soil in Charleston South Carolina. There to contemplate the journey that life took...
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Time to detox
Well the reunion has come to an end. A good group of guys made it from my company-and from the Corps in general. On Thursday there was a cigar and scotch social at the Yacht club that marvelous. I was...
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But I thought we lost the war during Obama’s West Point speech?
LTG Daniel Bolger (Citadel Class of 1978) has a very good book out chronicling the truth that a whole lot of people don't want to admit. For them, the wars were lost when the President of the United...
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An explanation of Net Neutrality anyone can understand.
America's dumbest Senator distinguished himself the other day by tweeting this: Thanks a lot dickhead! By tweeting this, you proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that you know nothing about health care...
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And we are back…….
Back yesterday from a very busy week in Tel Aviv. Experienced at least one or two near death experiences on the Ayalon Expressway-where I expect it, and one in a place where I did not expect it at...
View ArticleThe Hagel mess……
Listen up boys and girls, because contrary to the opinion of some ( and you know you are), I can , in fact, be critical of the President of the United States. And today is a good day to be critical of...
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