ca1ic0cat said...

ca1ic0cat at 02:20 AM JST - 8th July

I guess beauty contests are sort of like reality TV without the gross behaviour. Not my cup of tea but I don't see any more harm in them than most other human endeavours.

Posted in What do you think of beauty contests like Miss Universe? at 02:20 AM JST - 8th July
ca1ic0cat at 01:22 AM JST - 26th June

so the question is, will JT pick up the slack?

Posted in Mainichi's English site shuts down one column criticized for being 'too vulgar' at 01:22 AM JST - 26th June
ca1ic0cat at 02:21 AM JST - 25th June

as one women I used to work with used to say, "most women don't realize they are sitting on a gold mine." I guess this one did. Unfortunately, as with anything where gold is involved, jealousy rears it's ugly head.

I wonder if her husband set her up?

Posted in 25-year-old wife arrested for selling nude photos of herself at 02:21 AM JST - 25th June
ca1ic0cat at 09:11 PM JST - 23rd June

What is interesting is that the al-quaida #2 (what's his name) insists that they would never use women in such a way, that women should be home raising future terrorists.

Of course this also means that al quaida is also going to kill more of their fellow Muslims, which they…

Posted in Woman suicide bomber kills 15 in northern Iraq at 09:11 PM JST - 23rd June
ca1ic0cat at 09:04 PM JST - 23rd June

I think that the consequences of suicide are so expensive that money spent on health benefits to get some mental health help would be well spent.

Mental health issues don't have to be made public either. But Japanese culture has evolved around this idea of the "ultimate apology" and so…

Posted in People used to say 'why do we have to use tax money to deal with suicides, when this is an individual problem?' But unless the entire community understands that this is an issue, it can't be solved. at 09:04 PM JST - 23rd June
ca1ic0cat at 08:51 PM JST - 20th June

"this came back to bite them."

Now that's a bad pun. But either way the ends never justify the means.

Posted in Police arrest 2 Greenpeace members over whale meat theft at 08:51 PM JST - 20th June
ca1ic0cat at 09:04 PM JST - 18th June

If the state had left marriage as a religious activity only then this wouldn't be a political debate. Instead there would be churches that practiced poligamy and some that allowed same sex marriages and you would go to which ever you agreed with.

But the state couldn't leave marriage well…

Posted in What are your views on same-sex marriages? at 09:04 PM JST - 18th June
ca1ic0cat at 08:58 PM JST - 18th June

the only way this would have been better is if he had to spend the last 13 years in a Japanese jail...

Posted in Man who killed Japanese student with firebomb in 1995 executed in Oklahoma at 08:58 PM JST - 18th June
ca1ic0cat at 08:41 PM JST - 17th June

you have to wonder if Obama will have enough clout to overcome the "old guard" if he is elected. If there is one thing about DC it is a snake pit of special interests who think nothing of destroying others to feed at the public trough. It's one thing to…

Posted in Gore endorses Obama at 08:41 PM JST - 17th June
ca1ic0cat at 08:35 PM JST - 17th June

how on earth did the opening of a piddly hotel in Montreal end up as "news" in Japan?

Posted in World's 1st aloft hotel opens in Montreal at 08:35 PM JST - 17th June