This attitude makes me incredibly angry. Woman is at a bar, dancing, when someone else grabs her top and pulls it down, exposing her to the cameras of "Girls Gone Wild." She does not know she is in a video until four years later. She sues Girls Gone Wild - and the jury rules against her ( Read more... )

Most of you have probably heard about the fuss over the live action Avatar movie that is being made by M. Night Shyamalan, due to its epic casting fail ( Read more... )

Hoo boy. A lot of people have been talking about a recent measure taken by the Japanese government, wherein the offer immigrants and Nikkei (Japanese who lived abroad/foreigners of Japanese descent who have moved back to Japan) $3,000 to leave Japan and and never return to work ( Read more... )

I'm working on the short essay for my postwar Japanese class on the Yasukuni Shrine and Akihabara. This is a little tricky when the professor is obviously quite firm in the belief that there is no reason the Yasukuni Shrine should be controversial - the only article for extra reading that he gave us about it is an article explaining why it is not a ( Read more... )

So. There is a proposed law by the Bush administration that would allow doctors to refuse to give abortions or sterilizations (just female, as far as I can tell) based on moral or religious objections. Hereis the proposed rule. Not the draft, mind - the actual rule ( Read more... )

Sigh. Religion makes me vaguely uncomfortable ( Read more... )

Survived first week of classes. Doesn't seem like this semester will be too too hard, except for Japanese and language and education, the linguistic anthropology course (which I've found involves science. Ewwie. Science is supposed to stay away from languages and anthropology!). I'm a little bit apprehensive about that class. We shall see ( Read more... )

First off, let me say that my experience with my economics classes here have made me hate economics more than any other subject I've studied. I wasn't fond of algebra, statistics, or science in high school, but I didn't hate them like I do econ. (Quiz today, TA made me feel like an idiot, others complaining after about how they don't understand it ( Read more... )

I bought Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne a few weeks ago, and just finished it. I found it interesting, but terribly sad. Looking at others' reviews of the book there apparently isn't much new that hasn't been speculated on before, but I enjoyed it as I knew nothing about Masako other than that she hasn't had a son.

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Ye intellectually-minded manga fans on my FL ( Read more... )