smithinjapan said...

smithinjapan at 09:44 AM JST - 2nd October

As for everyone suddenly having doubts about Palin... as if they were actually dumb enough to NOT have doubts about her! Everyone with a brain knew well before hand it was just a stunt to beef up McCain's failing campaign, and now that that's gone out the window the s$#t…

Posted in Palin gets chance to overcome doubts in VP debate at 09:44 AM JST - 2nd October
smithinjapan at 09:42 AM JST - 2nd October

Palin is toast.... there is no WAY she can avoid saying something ridiculously unrelated to the role she's going for, and no way she can defend comments she's already made. My prediction is that she's desperately going to repeat over and over the silly bombast she spewed out for the…

Posted in Palin gets chance to overcome doubts in VP debate at 09:42 AM JST - 2nd October
smithinjapan at 09:37 AM JST - 2nd October

Sick.

Posted in Jeering crowd goads suicidal jumper to his death in England at 09:37 AM JST - 2nd October
smithinjapan at 09:35 AM JST - 2nd October

I joined mixi a few years ago in an attempt to buff up my colloquial Japanese a bit, and what this writer says is absolutely true. While I met up with more than a few of the friends I 'met' on mixi (and dated a couple people of the ladies),…

Posted in Japan's online social scene isn't so social at 09:35 AM JST - 2nd October
smithinjapan at 02:39 PM JST - 1st October

Suzu: I love DeLillo in particular, although he has a serious dry spate before 'The Flying Man' (I actually threw 'Ratner's Star' out the window at least once before insisting on going out to get and finish it). Still, it's inconsistancies like this in DeLillo that undermine the body of…

Posted in Nobel literature head: U.S. too insular to compete at 02:39 PM JST - 1st October
smithinjapan at 12:52 PM JST - 1st October

Sez: "Language and culture are inseparable. There is no language which does not provide a lens on the human condition and there is no language which does not let its best poets and authors focus that lens on something of interest to people of all cultures."

I agree with you...…

Posted in Nobel literature head: U.S. too insular to compete at 12:52 PM JST - 1st October
smithinjapan at 12:49 PM JST - 1st October

sarge: "That must be why so many bestsellers are written by Americans."

Yeah... just walk into any airport bookshop and see such best-sellers as Stephen King's latest, or the best-selling Danielle Steele! Hell, you can pick up Dan Brown novels just about anywhere!!

As Cleo correctly pointed out, being a…

Posted in Nobel literature head: U.S. too insular to compete at 12:49 PM JST - 1st October
smithinjapan at 03:29 PM JST - 27th September

Nippon5: "Smith in Japan AQ declared war on the US and the west in 1996 when Clinton was on watch. So in fact your wrong..."

Hey, bud... I said 9/11 took part on Bush's watch, and that it was HE who started the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.... and you're…

Posted in Obama, McCain argue over war, taxes in 1st debate at 03:29 PM JST - 27th September
smithinjapan at 03:09 PM JST - 27th September

USARonin: "USAFdude, it was Democrat Clinton who had the opportunity to easily take out bin Laden but freely chose not to."

Ummm... just a sec here... searching my other computer... who was president when OBL and Co. attacked the US on 9/11.... oh! Wait!! It wasn't Clinton at all!!

In…

Posted in Obama, McCain argue over war, taxes in 1st debate at 03:09 PM JST - 27th September
smithinjapan at 12:44 PM JST - 27th September

I didn't catch the start of the debate, unfortunately... I wish, as I doubt he did, Obama would have started it off with:

"First I'd like to thank my esteemed opponent for showing up today despite promising he would not..."

Would have sent McCain steam-rolling into his famous convulsions of…

Posted in Obama, McCain argue over war, taxes in 1st debate at 12:44 PM JST - 27th September