Cypriot jet crash in Greece

Pictures and text from a story this morning on CNN.com: A Cypriot jet with “no sign of life” in the cockpit as it approached Athens, Greece, crashed today, killing 121 people, officials said. Reports say F-16 pilots escorting the jet after air traffic controllers lost contact with it said the pilot was not in the [...]

Kipple goes to war

From the front page of today’s New York Times comes this story about the kipple infiltration among our troops in Iraq, G.I.’s Deployed in Iraq Desert With Lots of American Stuff, centered ironically on “Camp Liberty”: …wherever possible, the current generation of young soldiers – like its predecessors in Vietnam and other conflicts – has [...]

Oranges now! And hurry up the cakes!

From a recent column in the SF Chronicle by John Flinn, Culture shock still souvenir of Japan, comes the following excellent examples of Japanese T-shirt English, which I have made bold: About the only place I saw English used consistently was on T-shirts worn by young people, and (as Japanophiles here are well aware) this [...]