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Mmm... I wonder what my buddies over at the Korean Central News Agency of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are up to these day...

As if my simple recommendation weren't enough to bestow greatness upon them, my friend Pierre over at Loser's Guide has asked me wh...

Please go buy any and all albums by Drive-By Truckers .

This from the CBC: Minuteman volunteers to patrol Canada-U.S. border for illegal migrants . I guess things are falling apart in Canada, forc...

There's nothing more obnoxious than a zealot, and new types seem to be springing up daily. Take IOC anti-doping czar Dick Pound, for exa...

Jeremy Roenick , 35 year-old NHL veteran, on not being named to the American men's Olympic hockey team: "It would be a travesty if ...

The lovely young woman on the left is none other than (following Japanese name forms) Aoi Sora (link NSFW), which means "Blue Sky...

... we've been hearing about kidnappers threatening to kill their peace activist hostages , more US marines killed by roadside bombs , a...

Well, I was scheduled to be flying home for a visit to Canada tomorrow, but there's this big honkin' typhoon parked off the southern...

"Ground Self-Defense Force troops deployed in Iraq for reconstruction assistance cannot vote in the Sept 11 general election because th...

To be fair, this kind of shit is not exclusive to Japan-- 6-month-old girl dies from heat in car while mom plays pachinko , but apparently t...

Some interesting statistics on crimes committed by foreigners in Japan . A typical headline: Record number of foreigners charged with crimes...

"A South Korean man who recently quit his job to play more video games died after playing almost non-stop for 50 hours at an internet ...

Pierre over at Loser's Guide has expressed some puzzlement over Ishihara's remarks about French being a "language which cannot...

Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara is being sued for "insulting the French language." Apparently Mr. Ishihara, on Oct. 19, said ...

Mr. Doudou Diene of Senegal has been to and now left Japan. Mr. Diene, at the end of his nine-day visit said that discrimination in Japan is...

According to Japan Today " A U.N. expert on racism and discrimination will visit Japan in July for the first time [...]" Doudou Di...

A quote I never expected to read: "It is a sad loss for Pakistani hockey [...]" Dumb Americans: An impending law in the US will pu...

A funny lyric: "My masochistic baby went and left me..." (Fatboy Slim, El Bebe Masoquista ) A Timbit: Apparently trash from Tim Ho...

I've decided to begin a list of blogs that I regularly check out (it's somewhere on the left of this page, but I suppose that could ...