In the age of Imperialism control of Central Asia was called “The Great Game.” Now it’s played for higher stakes, control of oil reserves, and Russia, which you might have thought was down for the count after the Soviet Union dissolved, now looks like a winner, says Asia Times. The lead before the link […]

Appropriately named after Dem icon “Tip” O’Neill, the downtown tunnel and elevated central artery urban planners thought would bring Boston into the 21st century has laid a golden egg.  Originally budgeted at $2.6 billion, the Apes say our nation’s most expensive highway project- ever- came in five years later at a cool $14.6 billion.  Brahmin John […]

by Sasha
As JesusFest 2007 mercifully comes to an end and those 20% of us who don’t even bother to tell pollsters that we are Christians breathe a sigh of gratitude that the excess is passing, many of us would like to turn a fond eye toward Kwanzaa. The joy of anticipating Kwanzaa is not […]

No, Mike Huckabee, it’s not some clinic for ball players to improve their kicking skills. It’s the self-proclained, allegedly  oil-rich ”independent” state stretching around the strategic Horn of Africa that may soon (with a little help from its friends) break away from the Somali “republic.”  Nobody in area code 713 is talking but my spies in cryogenics tell […]

When I was a kid in small-town Wisconsin, Santa greeted his public in a spacious trailer that was parked on the courthouse square each December courtesy of the local mobile home dealer. One evening when I was maybe six and my brother was four, we made our annual visit to the jolly elf. As we […]

Here in Yokohama it is fast approaching midnight on Christmas Eve. The tree is decorated, the turkey is brining, the eggnog mellowing, and in just a few hours grandson Keegan James Glynn will experience his second Christmas. What he will make of it at age eighteen months, it’s hard to say. But for Ruth and […]

This is for all those who are touting the “success” of the American surge in pacifying Iraq. It is not as bad as it was, but it is still bad. There are still Resistance groups shooting at us, and they are boasting about it.
However, it is my observation, of daily studying this war, […]

For those of you who are getting tired of ridiculous comments and verbal attacks by American politicians. In Japan, we are getting swamped with our politicians worrying about UFO’s. The link provided does not fully give the comments by Defense Minister Ishiba, but he said that in the movies the Japanese Self Defense […]

Monsieur le president without wedding ring, with supermodel/chanteuse Karla Bruni. The Times online has all the dish that fits.  It won’t play in Peoria.  In Chalons-sur-Saone they’re giving the affair of the New Millenium a Gallic shrug. Hillary and Neil Young, Barack and Oprah,Huckabee and Faith Hill?  Can you imagine… 

Harry Reid was interviewed last night on News Hour by the ridiculously spineless Ray Suarez.
Reid must be a bastard brinksman to own the power he does, so inept and ineffectual a public spokesman he is, so I’m tempted to believe him when he self-pityingly claims the pigbrained Republicans and the fuckfaced president who commands them […]