In winter, I'm a Buddhist,
And in summer, I'm a nudist.
- Joe Gould
"My Religion"
In fact the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.
- Oscar Wilde, aware in 1889 that popular conceptions about the country and its people are mostly fiction.
Not even 10% of what Japanese people are thinking is communicated overseas.
- Watanabe Tsuneo of CSIS
All foreign correspondents, whenever they desert statistics for judgments of opinion...become models of self-deception. They may call themselves, with proper gravity, ‘reporters’. But...they are nothing but quack psychiatrists who do not even know that this is the field they practise.
- Alistair Cooke
Where all news comes at second-hand, where all the testimony is uncertain, men cease to respond to truths, and respond simply to opinions. The environment in which they act is not the realities themselves, but the pseudo-environment of reports, rumors, and guesses.
- Walter Lippmann
We want...a revolution - a turning of the wheel, so that the state becomes once again the servant of the people, and not the other way around. We are the progressives now, comrades, (and) you the reactionaries.
- Daniel Hannan
If the textbook says, "It is well known that...", you can be sure that is a very good place to begin a research inquiry.
- Isaiah Bowman, geographer and former president of Johns Hopkins University
The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
- Cicero (55 BC)
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press. It is not we who silence the press. It is the press that silences us. It is not a case of the Commonwealth settling how much the editors shall say; it is a case of the editors settling how much the Commonwealth shall know. If we attack the press, we shall be rebelling, not repressing.
- G.K. Chesterton
You can see a lot by looking.
- Yogi Berra
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jjokbalikilla59295 said
rest in pieces
21st Century Schizoid Man said
Tony and Paul Burns: I sincerely hope you guys will find a way to manage this blog (and hopefully preserve on a condition not accepting any comment further – it is the easiest and safest approach) and to delete comments from a punk.
jjokbalikilla59295 said
21st Century Schizoid Man, hope you end up in the ICU
21st Century Schizoid Man said
Jjokbailkilla59295: Me, too.
21st Century Schizoid Man said
Tony and Paul Burns: I sincerely hope you guys will find a way to manage this blog (and hopefully preserve on a condition not accepting any comment further – it is the easiest and safest approach) and to delete comments from a punk.
21st Century Schizoid Man said
日本語の読める人向けになっちゃうけど、この数字の後ろにくっついた気違いは一体何者かねえ。
TonyさんとPaulさんが何とかこのブログを制御可能にして、もうコメントができないようにするのが一番手っ取り早くていいと思います。
そして、このブログを将来にわたって保存して下さることを強く望みます。Billさんはもう書けないにしても、一冊の本じゃ足りないくらいの分量があり、生涯繰り返し読むにも足る内容だと信じています。僕も到底すべては読めてません。その意味でも、是非お願いします。
21st Century Schizoid Man said
因みに意図的に沢山コメントをしているのは、この番号の後ろにくっついた卑怯な馬鹿野郎（英語だけは日常使ってる輩だろうことは想像がつく文章ですが）が左側の最近のｺﾒﾝﾄ欄に表示されるのが嫌でたまらんからです。宜しくご賢察ください。
21st Century Schizoid Man said
あと３つコメントしたらこいつが消えますんで、更に投稿してます。もっとも、また反応されたら一からやり直しだから、自分が馬鹿みたいに感じるけどね。
No.6 said
As 21st CSM; same action here.
Surprised there’s been so little spam to date, but you can always count on the internet to vomit up people sick enough to do the blog version of dancing on someone’s grave.
Ken said
21CSM,
This coward is a Korean judging from the pen-name, who has grudge against Bill because this guy would have been defeated in this blog. They would often dig up enemy’s tomb and thrush deceased person’s body though civilized people have the common sense to send condolence to even those who have antipathy each other. This storm blown away my request to Tony posted in ‘Ichigen-Koji (268)’.
Tony said
@21csm and Paul,
I’m not in Saga now but as soon as I get back I will try and see what I can do to get Bill’s computer on. I’ll let you know.
I’m not surprised the acne of the Internet is coming to spam Bill’s site. Tellingly, they’re so dim and without pride that can’t see the irony in how every insensitive message they send about Bill’s passing just proves everything Bill said about them.
21st Century Schizoid Man said
Tony: Thank you so much. For your wonderful second paragraph: “truly I say to you, they have their reward in full.” Mattew 6:2
nipkilla592952959 said
Ken and Tony, hope you both end up murdered, preferably by getting hacked to death with a nice chainsaw, and then fed to wolves.
American Kim said
To the friends of William Sakovich who were laboring to preserve the blog:
Are there any updates?
This blog is an amazing work which should not be lost. The hours William spent over several years putting together a vast and rich amount of information should not be put to waste.
I’m glad the blog is still accessible, and I only wish I had the time to read every month’s entries starting from January 2007.
I hope you all succeed in preserving it.
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