Recent content by chickensaw

Am I the only one who doesn't understand what this post is saying?

Not true, and an oversimplification. Look at sub-Saharan Africa. Population is off the charts but economic growth is basically flat or nonexistent. It is effectively negative if you consider decreases in GDP per capita; so even if GDP remains flat, if per capita GDP falls, you have effective...

Many Japanese women do not work. They are also ridiculously educated. So you have a potentially high-skilled workforce that is culturally delegated to either keeping up the home or serving tea to guests. No wonder none of them want to marry or have kids. This obviously has a negative impact on...

You have an odd sense of what karma is. A few days of this stuff, vs. on mainland China there are people who live in these conditions on a daily basis. If you go back in Asian history beyond the myopic 60 years that most people focus on Asian countries have been duking it out for centuries...

I attended this twice. There were no topless women or naked people. A lot of cross-dressers and race queens, though. Plenty of children. It is a fertility festival after all.

Only if you are naive enough to believe the hysterics of the media. Are relations at an all-time low? Yes. Are they so low that we will see missiles flying back and forth? Hardly. The Chinese government employs 50,000 people to monitor the Internet. You don't think, in a country of a billion...

A *bit* like an alarmist? Saying you don't think war is likely on one hand, but then making pronouncements with the other that staying clear of the eastern Asia-Pacific region is a good idea. Making cold war analogies on one hand, then saying nothing actually happened with the other. The...

[/B] Oh, please. Turn up your oxygen. They are not stupid enough to go to war over these islands, despite the massive amounts of natural resources (allegedly) held underneath the waters. There are simply incentives to do so. China's economy growth is slowing and they are currently in the...

Have you ever actually been to Japan? Methinks not. You don't get "beaten up on the street for saying Japan was aggressor during WWII." That is, unless you happen to parade your opinion in front of a bunch of Japanese nationalists (i.e. fringe wackos). Neither is it illegal to be a Nazi in...

No credit card = no purchase. This is online shopping 101.

110% fail.

Doesn't look particularly uncensored to me.

The archives in the OP are demanding a password. What's the PW?

Wasn't the entire purpose of "rebranding" for her to get away from the more risque stuff? Seems like she's come full circle.

The French are doing the same thing. Protectionism ho! (It's a BAD thing, if you didn't realize). This is ridiculous because this burgeoning minority represents Japan's greatest opportunity for demographic growth.