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Celebrate Loving Day! A celebration of interracial love. That’s something I could get behind, or under, or whatever position you want!

This quote from the New York Times article has been troubling me for the last day or so:
“Japan has become considerably self-centered, meritocratic and egotistic,” said the principal, Kenji Tamiya, 72, a former Sony executive.
Ok, so I can understand how self-centeredness and egotism are not necessarily good for a society, but what is so bad [...]

There was an article in yesterday's New York Times (June 11, 2006) entitled "Japan's Conservatives Push Prewar 'Virtues' In Schools." The article talks about a new public school teacher training center in a middle-class ward of Tokyo run by conservatives, who see modern Japan as a society that has lost its way and wish [...]

Last nite, Tash and I watched all 12 episodes of R. Kelly's masterpiece "hip-opera," Trapped in the Closet on YouTube.com. Seriously, I think that R. Kelly may be the Shakespeare of our times, combining rhyming couplets and a whole lotta soul.  It's like Shakespeare's sonnets, tragedies and comedies all melded into one.  This magnus opus [...]

Wow, spin-off marketing is taken to the farther possible extreme in Japan. Tash and I picked up a 1300 yen (about 11 dollars) bottle of convenience store World Cup Riesling (plonk) after dinner to sip chez moi. Well, for 11 bucks, not bad. They even show you on the label where Germany [...]