I've missed that sustained discourse and offer the following unsolicited thoughts on random things as junk brought...
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The atomic bombs dropped on Japan are not only defensible, but actively good. The critics who ignore...
In an era of boring mass media, we need creative weirdness more than ever. "Music is Over!"...
The bonds between Miyazaki's characters are the sinews binding his movies together, bringing all this wondrous art,...
Sixty-Five Years Later, Godzilla Continues To Be A Symbol For Everything From Humanity’s Sins To A Force...
Your Ordinary World: Christmas Hangover edition, with links to stories you should catch up on now that...
Your Ordinary World for 3 Dec 2019 with links to stories about Brexit, China, India, Pakistan, France,...
This Week: Japan, Africa, Nordica, Islands, Historia, and Space!
A personal essay on the King of the Monsters.
Suicides in Japan spike on the first day of school.
Ignorant protesters successfully censor an art exhibition in Boston.
Concerning disaster porn and the publication of disasters.
Tod’s recent post on contraception contained this thought-provoking segment: Another note of interest was this argument by...
Sunday was the one-year anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami that killed 20,000 people, and I...
This isn’t particularly new or exciting, but I recently stumbled across this fascinating article from Jared Diamond...
George H. W. Bush on his own infamous bow in Japan:
So I was listening to NPR this morning and a Japanese economist was talking about their “lost...
