This time tomorrow I will be moved back to South Dakota. It's a good movie, but I'm kind of melancholy about it. I like this town, this job, this apartment. But upwards and onwards....

Japan: Commentators at Japundit are unimpressed with Koizumi's calls for other Asian states to respect Japan's internal politics. Except for all the train disasters, of course.

Why are so many attractive Japanese having kids? And what's with unintelligible shirts?

Korea: Remember the North-South Korean dinner? Ain't gonna happen. Maybe folks were afraid they would waste too much money gambling

China: More fall-out from the Barnett Battle of the Pundits: How to Fight China. Coming Anarchy, Nadezhda, Zen Pundit, and the man who started it all -- Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett. -- all chime in.

Maybe should should just debate on Chinese satellite TV.

South-East Asia: Has the bogus Newsweek story destroyed goodwill America won after the tsunami?

Central Asia: How long until the fall of Islam Karimov? A long time if they are trying to organize protests by telephone. Maybe they can agitate in front of the American embassy?

Something better happen soon. Both British Foreign Minister Jack Straw a random peace corp volunteer are getting impatient.

South-West Asia: Canada slaps sanctions on Iran. And the ever-interesting miscellaneous news from Iraq.

Random Factoid: Heligoland is rapidly shrinking. Maybe if the Liancourt Rocks would do the same thing, Japan and Korea could have peace.