Mark Bossingham

Narcisscist In Chief

CALLING HIMSELF "America's first Pacific President," the Hawaii-born Obama signaled a commitment to the region, but with no new specifics on how to re-invigorate his trade agenda.

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Tokyo Construction Week 30

Dog's first road trip to Nagano

SPENT THE night at a Nagano onsen last weekend (great baths, lousy food) with the dog. We all had fun. Stopped at a "healing spot" to pick up some magic water. Kiyomi ended up driving 7 hours to the onsen. I held the puppy.

 

  

Dr. Phil and the Fort Hood Killer

WHAT IS hard to ignore, now, is the growing derangement on all matters involving terrorism and Muslim sensitivities. Its chief symptoms: a palpitating fear of discomfiting facts and a willingness to discard those facts and embrace the richest possible variety of ludicrous theories as to the motives behind an act of Islamic terrorism. All this we have seen before but never in such naked form. The days following the Fort Hood rampage have told us more than we want to know, perhaps, about the depth and reach of this epidemic.

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Playing Dumb

THERE IS something both pathetic and infuriating about the head-scratching and obfuscation going on in the wake of the Ft. Hood massacre: Jennier Rubin.

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That figures

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Cabo San Lucas at 58

YOU CAN tell it's Mexico because of all  the cactus growing in the wild. That's a joke. Part of a cruise around the Sea of Cortez aboard the Holland America Line ship Veendam. Fun. Kiyomi was arguably the youngest adult passenger. Very brief port calls. The ship disgorged a herd of elderly passengers who milled around aimlessly for a couple of hours in the sun before retreating to the ship. Ports: San Diego, Mazatlan, Loreto and one other place I've already forgotten. Great food in San Diego and Mazatlan. I hit Mexico (some border town next to Brownsville when I was 25. It was hot and I was drunk. Still hot but at least I was sober this time.

California vs. Texas: The verdict is in

TEXAS, INCREASINGLY, is the economic and intellectual leader of the U.S. During the last 18 months before the current recession took hold, while the country as a whole was still creating jobs, more than half of those jobs were created in a single state: Texas.

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