Reference the following article about Japan's newest crop of "Grass Eaters":

http://gaijinchronicles.com/2010/08/31/plight-of-the-grass-eater

Choice quote from the article: "When a guy in the developmental stages sees girls his age swooning over the [sensitive, sissy guy] type, this sets a precedent within his brain â" this is what girls like, and if you want to be what girls like, you have to be like this. It may not even be an active choice, but something that just fires subconsciously in his brain. So the seed has been planted. Granted, Japanese guys have taken this sissy seed and watered and nurtured it into a massive pussy forest, but thatâ(TM)s just the special Japanese skill of taking everything to hardcore extremes."

But to be fair, macho Americans have their own massive crops of sissy men with a large female following.

Starting his trek with Hong Kong was a brilliant move. A US passport holder can go to Hong Kong without a visa (automatically granted for 90 days) and still get high-level diplomatic coverage from the Chinese if international scuffles like these arise.

That's pretty strange. I'm buying the hard stuff from a privatized liquor store here in liberal Seattle.

I see what you did there.

My wife pumps several times a day while at work and brings home the milk. I (or another person) can feed the baby via bottle at home.

It's not easy, but it can be done. The baby still gets all the nutritional benefits, but unfortunately not the bonding experiences.

How does the 1/6 of the workforce compare to other states?

That brings up some even more interesting data.

California, the bastion of all that's evil socialism and big government, employs 2.4 million public sector workers. Out of a population of 38 million. That's 6.3% of the total population. Some other estimates count even fewer public employees.

Texas, on the other hand, has 16.66% of its population on the public payroll.

They've been outsourcing for many years - to Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia. Most textile and clothing is now in these countries due to the increased labor costs in China. With the cultural and relationships headway China is making in Africa, manufacturing will soon move there once SE Asia becomes too expensive.

Apparently, Chinese companies have been also outsourcing to another Third World location with cheaper land and cheaper electricity - South Carolina.

http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/06/news/international/china_america_full.fortune/

No, it's because people now "require" a 3000 sq ft house, a home theater, $200 monthly cable subscription, $200 monthly cell phone bills, and 2 cars each costing north of $25000.

People in the "good old days" only needed a single income because they didn't "need" anywhere near this level of luxuries that we have today.

Looks like Texans are the big leechers:

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-08-20/business/35270608_1_job-growth-rick-perry-public-sector-jobs

"Between December 2007 and [June 2011], private-sector employment in Texas declined by 0.6 percent while public-sector jobs increased by 6.4 percent, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. Overall, government employees account for about one-sixth of the workforce in Texas."

Pulling up by the bootstraps, my foot.

Do the Google hits that associate [name] with [crime] suddenly disappear when they are exonerated?

Since they're Chechnyans, they are, in the literal sense of the word, Caucasians.

To put up with a week of cruiseline food and entertainment, I think most of the rich would rather just pay the top cap gains rate instead.

My pregnant wife wanted a manual pat-down, and this TSA drone proceeded to give me a lecture about how we shouldn't be afraid of "radiation" and how it's very safe. Then I told him that the government never released any health test data from these machines, et cetera. Thinking back, he could have given me a lot of trouble for that talkback, but didn't.

It's hard to have long term plans in a direct or indirect democracy. Too many people having too much say in things.

Ignoring the social and economic costs for a moment - prior to the Beijing Olympics, the government built an entire subway line under a crowded world capital city in 7 months. Projects like this require a "benevolent" dictator.

Airlines and plane manufacturers are very sensitive to weight.

A 12 oz canned beverage is served to 2 passengers. For a flight with 150 people, that's 75 cans - about 60 lbs. Do the math and you're all of the sudden paying for fuel to carry tens of millions of pounds every year in your fleet - and that's just the complementary beverages.

Every little bit counts. Delta, for example, saved $210,000 a year by removing a single strawberry from their first class salads. If a pack of peanuts goes up by a penny, it's an extra $600,000 a year. These "little" things add up.