Japan recently announced that it will fingerprint and photograph all foreigners entering its borders. Another response to the “global war on terrorism”? Well, who knows–except that Japan is one of safest and yet most paranoid nations… This doesn’t, of course, mean that it’s immune from crime and terrorist attacks, but it’s not (I [...]

Reading back through my last few months of entries, I realized that I’ve lost touch with what’s happening locally. Maybe that’s why the Washington Post keeps sending me advertisements asking for my subscription…. But joke aside, I really haven’t been doing all that much around the WMA this fall. Somehow I intend to [...]

Lately I’ve developed a new obsession: current events. Sometimes when I’m cooking dinner or driving in my car or doing whatever, I get this insatiable urge to find out what’s going on right now around the world. Because it there’s something I’ve learned over the past few months, it’s that there’s always something [...]

Obviously, as far as this blog goes, I’ve been letting the grass grow under my feet. In all other aspects of life, I think, I’ve been sprinting at full speed. Work has been busy–but I suppose that’s been a given recently. Aikido has also taken up a decent amount of time. [...]