BrightEyes said...

BrightEyes at 12:19 AM JST - 26th November

Call the Waaahhhmbulance!

America isn't giving us everything we want!

That's it! We've had enough of this! We're going to make clear that we have high expectations that Obama will give us everything that we want and pretend that our country never did anything wrong!

Japan is someday going to…

Posted in Expectations for Obama running high in Japan at 12:19 AM JST - 26th November
BrightEyes at 12:00 AM JST - 26th November

Sarge,

Sorry, but Connery had the best all time 007 wisecrack, and, true to character, he pulled it off without saying a word.

(Bond Walks in on Fiona Volpe in the bathtub)

Fiona: Give me something to put on!

(Bond picks up her shoes, carries them to the tub and…

Posted in Which actor's portrayal of James Bond is the best? at 12:00 AM JST - 26th November
BrightEyes at 11:34 PM JST - 25th November

Wanderlust,

You are right about Connery in Never Say Never Again. He was already losing it in Diamonds Are Forever. In my opinion, he should have stayed retired after You Only Live Twice. The funny thing about Connery is that middle age was really unkind to him, but he regained…

Posted in Which actor's portrayal of James Bond is the best? at 11:34 PM JST - 25th November
BrightEyes at 09:16 AM JST - 25th November

The character of Bond is essentially a killer. The two most menacing Bonds are Connery and Craig. Connery has a sort of devil-may-care swagger and confidence that everyone, save Craig, has tried to imitate but has not quite captured. Connery pulled this off because he honestly looked like a man…

Posted in Which actor's portrayal of James Bond is the best? at 09:16 AM JST - 25th November
BrightEyes at 10:07 AM JST - 19th November

College students? Smoking MARIJUANA?!!!

Well I thought Japan had hit rock bottom when they made a cartoon into an ambassador for Japanese culture, or when the guy in charge of the campaign to stop drunk-driving got arrested for drunk-driving, but THIS, THIS is a whole new level of depravity.

Japanese…

Posted in Marijuana making inroads into university campuses, raising concern at 10:07 AM JST - 19th November
BrightEyes at 11:02 AM JST - 11th November

American needs Japan, but not nearly as desperately as Japan needs America. Without American diplomatic, strategic and military patronage, Japan would be at the mercy of North Korea.

Without Japan, America would be further in debt to Saudi Arabia and China.

To posit equivalency is simply absurd.

Posted in Can Uncle Sam bounce back? at 11:02 AM JST - 11th November
BrightEyes at 10:55 AM JST - 11th November

Attention Japan:

If you want to matter, then you should do more to make yourselves matter.

Right now all you do is demand respect you have not earned. With the rise of China, your demands are no longer as pressing as they once were.

The real pity is that if…

Posted in Japan-U.S. relations to be tested under an Obama administration at 10:55 AM JST - 11th November
BrightEyes at 11:33 PM JST - 7th November

Funny how after eight years of Bush so many of the reason-challenged here think they can already fault Obama for the mess the country is in.

Pathetic.

Posted in Now comes hard part for Obama: governing at 11:33 PM JST - 7th November
BrightEyes at 11:56 PM JST - 5th November

It's a great day to be an American. Congratulation President-elect Obama.

Posted in Obama sweeps to victory, says change has come to America at 11:56 PM JST - 5th November
BrightEyes at 03:38 AM JST - 17th August

Cleo,

It seems that you are now accusing me of believing that the cause of the Allies in the Second World War was morally superior to the cause of the Axis.

You are correct.

I do indeed believe the cause of the Allied powers was morally superior to that of…

Posted in Yasukuni at 03:38 AM JST - 17th August