Friday, April 9th, 2004

Apparently, I am the Stranger

According to the “Which Big Lebowski character are you?” quiz:


Why don’t you check it out? Or we cut of your Johnson!
This oughta please the wife, who would leave me for Sam Elliot in thirty seconds. Or, well, she would think hard about it, anyway.

No, I usually never take these quizzes, but it was there. And the Big Lebowski was a cool movie, And I DID like the stranger most of all.

Japanese hostages

At one time, the Japanese were our sworn enemies.

WWII veterans remember why all too well. Still, that was a lot of years ago.
More recently, Japanese have commented that Americans are lazy. Frankly, I have to agree with that, at least in general.

Today the Japanese are an independant democracy, and a valuable ally to the USA in many ways. It bites hard at a lot of Americans that the Japanese are being targeted. Misha has bloggged about it some, and frankly, I hope he and his commenters are right, I hope the spirit of Bushido is alive and well in their island nation. Whatever the case, I would love to see the people threatening the Japanese come to a hard end.

On Ms Rice:

Condoleeza Rice showed herself as the lady she is, as well as making it clear that she can out think, out act, and out do any of her detractors. Good for her. I’m amazed at the number of deep asshelmets who are out there pointing fingers-“See? she wouldn’t answer the question!!”.

Mr Clarke? Your ass, sir. On a silver platter.

I’m glad to have her on my side. The side of Americans.