A Happy New Year Open Thread

by wj Also Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, dōng zhì kuài lè (Happy Dongzhi Festival), Merry Pancha Ganapati, etc. We’re over due for a new Open Thread. And I expect most of us will have better things to do for the next week or two than come up with something substantive to tie one to. So … Read more

A sportswashing thread

by liberal japonicus For me, it’s with a sigh of relief that not only Japan and the US, but the UK and Korea as well have been eliminated from the World Cup. It’s not that I was rooting against them, it is just that this whole World Cup seems like a totally tawdry affair that … Read more