Mark Bossingham

Kiyomi's birthday dinner

WE WENT to an Italian restaurant, name already lost down the memory hole, in a converted bank near Tokyo Station on May 6.

"If we could talk to the animals"

ANOTHER GREAT column by Ann Coulter. This graph is especially pithy:
"Liberals think the way to deal with dangerous tyrants is to send in a sensitive president who will make Ahmadinejad fall in love with him. They imagine Obama becoming Ahmadinejad's psychotherapist, like Barbra Streisand in "The Prince of Tides."

A slogan you can laugh at

LAST WEEK, House Republicans unveiled their new slogan, "The Change You Deserve."

Man, that's just cruel.

Bipartisan stupidity

IN AN example of "Your Tax Dollars AT Work" or "Colossal Ignorance on Display" the U.S. House of Representatives has voted overwhelmingly to allow the U.S. Justice Department to sue OPEC nations because gas prices are too high. American politicians are not willing to drill or refine, but they are always ready to litigate.

Recession? What recession?

THE DOW just crawled back above 13,000 and unemployment is in the low 5-percent range. My stocks are doing fine. Try to imagine where the U.S. economy would be if it wasn't under constant threat from Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the tax-and-spend liberals. Wonder how much my friends in the states are going to have to pay when the Democrats let the Bush tax cuts expire?

Derailleur cables and 57 states

NOT MUCH going on here. I replaced the derailleur cable on my bike. Felt pretty good about it. Wasn't sure it would actually work. On-the-job training for sure. Speaking of inexperience, I am increasingly convinced the next U.S. president will be a man who thinks the republic includes 57 states.
As it appears we will have two Democrats running against each other, I, at this point, suspect I will be rooting for the real Democrat. Not because I think he will do a good job; just the opposite. But, 1) I don't live there so he can't raise my taxes; 2) I have already done my stint in the service so he can't destroy the military while I am in it; 3) much of the American public actually deserves him; and 4) I am fond of that old Chinese curse of "may you live in interesting times." Should be entertaining.

Global cooling warning

APRIL WAS the coldest since 1997 across the United States. Mention this to liberals and not only will they come up with some lame excuse, they will display their poor anger management skills.

Riding our bike