And when I say “sacked,” I don’t mean the British vernacular for being fired. In case you missed it, the CNN International Reporter Richard Quest was arrested last week in Central Park for what amounted to a park curfew violation. However, further details have emerged.
Seemingly with glee from MSNBC:
A CNN journalist who was arrested in […]

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Excuse me while I completely rip into someone who’s likely going through a tough time, but I’m guessing any native English-speaker living abroad or doing international business travelling, that has had to rely on the shoddy, elitist, CNN International for any semblance of TV news in English – is familiar with this smarmy twerp:

I’ve disliked Richard Quest for […]

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You are lounging in a warm plunge pool in the garden of a private villa while listening to “The Goldberg Variations.” Your robe and slippers are on the floor where you dropped them, right near the giant, pillow-mounded platform bed. You are thinking about having a brie omelet for breakfast, then a spa foot massage […]

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Here’s another one of these fun casino advertisements posing as a newspaper article. It’s clearly marked “press release” at the top, but I still wonder why Yahoo! is publishing this stuff.
So without anything further, join me as we glide on an authentic Asian fishing boat commandeered by one of those guys with the fishing hat […]

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A recent post surfaced on Japundit speculated that a series of photographs by Kohei Yoshiyuki, that’s been getting heaps of coverage in the New York press and art blog world, might actually be an example of yarase (staged scene).
Yarase is a popular medium in Japan sometimes done just for laughs, for shock, and perhaps most commonly, as tantalizing eroticism.

From simply looking at […]

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