A Japanese farmer runs the most exclusive farm in France. Just outside of Paris, Asafumo Yamashita, former boxer and semi-pro golfer, has his elite little vegetable farm nestles near Les Mureaux. Not a trace of bitterness from the spinach leaf’s tip to its light, fragrant stem. Top chef Eric Briffard wouldn’t dream of cooking these crisp [...]
Keynes is associated with the quote “in the long run we are all dead.” On its own, it’s pithy and reasonable, and a good response to people to try to plan too far into the future. Yet, I couldn’t help but think today, in view of economic policies that he would seem to favor bringing [...]
I was in Costco the other day…that is, Costco here in Japan. The physique of Japanese Costco customers is getting more and more like the typical steroid and fatty tissue physique of Americans. Yet, it’s still Japan. Which means there are still babes. I saw one girl in particular, shortish hair, flesh hugging lycra pants [...]
The Guardian ran yet another media hit-piece against the apparently formidable Sarah Palin. I say formidable because this woman, who is after all just a private citizen and, as everybody knows, a ditzy right wing nutcase, seems to inspire absolute fear in all on the left. Witness the AP assigning no fewer than 11 reporters [...]
“He has class. ” “She’s a classy dame.” Words from movies, when movies had class. Before they were called films. And before that bane of the late 20th century….. ‘TUDE The thing called ‘tude, or attitude when somebody could be both literate and motivated enough to say the whole word out loud. “Tude” was the [...]
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