Archive for the 'politics' Category

Reinstating the Draft?

« 2 June 2004 | 2:36 | America, law, politics | No Comments »

When I first heard about it, I surely thought it was a joke. I’m … speechless…

Battle numbers

« 25 May 2004 | 12:41 | America, politics | No Comments »

Zogby’s batteground states poll.
My guess is, we’re seeing the theory that the underdog has greater incentive to be active earlier. But still, it’s encouraging. In fact, it must happen.

DAJ Fundraiser at Roti

« 24 May 2004 | 13:21 | politics, tokyo life | No Comments »

Family friend Bill Campbell runs Hotei Wines, and they’re helping out this week with the DAJ. Check it:

Why the Guardian?

« 24 May 2004 | 13:15 | America, law, politics | No Comments »

As BubbleGeneration points out, why did it take the Guardian?
George Bush’s ineffective leadership is a weapon of mass destruction…
Read Nick Berg’s dad’s story.

Joining the Imperial family

« 11 May 2004 | 12:18 | Japan, law, politics, tokyo life | No Comments »

As mentioned briefly here, Princess Masako has been rather stressed, depressed, and in not so great health for the past year+. In the Prince’s announcement yesterday, he made it clear her ill-health was largely a fact of Imperial duties and not being able to maintain a career, let alone essentially function as a “normal [...]

Article flurry

« 10 May 2004 | 15:44 | America, diary, macnuttery, politics, scitech | 1 Comment »

Wow, I didn’t think I could’ve missed so much on the ‘net. Tons of catching up to do.

Bushmockery

« 15 April 2004 | 1:37 | America, Internet, humour, politics, web2.0 | No Comments »

Two amusing sites for testing your creativity, courtesy of mefi:
Make your own Bush speech
Make your own Bush comic

Restricting Imports

« 12 April 2004 | 15:11 | Japan, biznomics, law, music, politics, tokyo life | 1 Comment »

The Japanese government is at it again with their sneaky ways. Their most recent success has been making prices tax-included, which went into effect on April 1st. This means they can now raise sales taxes all they want w/o the general public getting full disclosure. Now, they want to restrict imports of copyrighted [...]

Ye ol’ mater

« 23 March 2004 | 9:47 | America, alma mater, education, politics | No Comments »

Brown in the news, investigating its connections to slavery.

Cheney is Zell?

« 18 March 2004 | 11:09 | America, humour, politics | 1 Comment »

Cheney as Zell. Hilarious.