My wife and I moved to Japan in 1994. Our first week there, went to dinner at the Korean Barbecue outside the front gate of NAF Atsugi (a US air base in a Tokyo suburb). I slathered my first bite of hibachi-grilled meat with a butter-pat-sized gob of wasabi, not knowing what it was (and, to be fair, my pat size was…

It's not my demands. You made an incredible statement. I asked that you provide a source. Your source is that you read it in one of two newspapers twenty years ago, you can't find it, and that if I want more evidence than your word on the Internet, I should do your research for you.

I may be welcome to find it, but that's not my duty; I'm not the one making the assertion. Given my knowledge of the Navy and submarines, especially those dating back to the early last century, I'll just conclude that an all female crew recommendation is extremely improbable in a published, double-blinded, peer…

Cite your source; this is a most unusual assertion and needs proper verification before being given any credibility.

It's sooo funny when you say racist things "satirically," because the satire makes the racist thing you've just said just disappear. Let me try. "Green-skinned Martians sure do like dem some of dat fried Moon rock." Wow, that was super funny, and couldn't offend anyone or be construed as racist because everybody…

I thought it was wrong to judge people for physical characteristics over which they have no control. Is it not, or are you a brazen hypocrite?

I see the term "conventionally attractive" thrown about quite a bit. It seems redundant and a little snarky, to me. If one is conventionally attractive, then one is attractive in the way the word is commonly used. So, why not just say "attractive"? It feels like saying UA means, "If you like what most people like,…

Really? You think the act of playing basketball, and nothing else, is what should determine the salary of the player? Because, it's mostly about the player's dominance (overall or, perhaps, in a specialty) at basketball, with a secondary consideration being his personality/popularity.

Agree with your thoughts. Wonder why "steward" and "waiter" could not properly be considered the gender-neutral terms, if "actor" and "writer" could be. "She is the flight's steward" or "Angie was my waiter" sounds fine to me. "Server" just leaves me cold, and "flight attendant" is sterile, too.

Yep. To generate the power and speed necessary to penetrate a defense, the attacker needs to know how to kick or punch, meaning using the whole body, like a golf swing. Just tossing one's fist, knee, or foot out there will likely result in a blocked or ineffectual strike, even against an amateur who is just winging…

Cold red center, charred outside: Charred Rare or Pittsburgh or Black and Blue

"Deck running" a current jet is entirely possible, given some combination of a light jet, a strong wind, and a fast boat, at least theoretically. I know of no US jet that has actually tried it on a conventional carrier. Russian jets do it with ski jumps.

Used to be a time when the tone of this story would be, "Look at the clever thing these awesome pilots found time to do for their families and friends at the end of their training mission. Ain't America great?" How far we have fallen.

Fighter pilots, affectionately, on the SLUF: "It may not be fast, but it's slow!"

I like my coffee like I like my slaves...

Prevent A by banning B: Page one of the Weak-minded Playbook of the Irrational yet Controlling. See also Drugs, Guns, and NYC 32 Ounce Cokes.

I wonder why she (and others) always seem to choose this false dichotomy, books or guns.

Of the ~33,000, about 20,000 of the "slaughters" are suicides*. Five hundred are accidents. A few hundred are undetermined.

"If a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his ass when he hopped."

Project, as shown: about $30 in parts, an hour of labor, plus $5.00 in ice every time you want to use it.