Gene Hennigh comments

None of this matters. Democracy is dead. The US will never be free again. Get out of Dodge while you can. Australia is a nice place to move to.

Natural planetary movements. . .we're doomed. Since our weather is warming I wonder when our natural planetary movements will go back to what it was. Got any idea, Sanjinosebleed? Climatologists have predicted exactly what is happening and why. So trying to stop it is a bad idea? Naivete is for children and fools.

Fast food is in a different class of cuisine. It's diversity is its strength. Hamburgers, remember, are not American. They came from Hamburg, Germany. So Japan plays to a Japanese audience. American fast food brands are all over the world and are done for the people who live in those countries. Burger King isn't bad, but it is the same old thing in the US. Not much different, though they do have burgers that come and go. Woody Lee, above, is right. Why NOT make this in the US? Why not offer different things at least once in a while? I am an American living in America, and it's always the same. It's good, but always the same. People here complain about too many film sequels and then eat the same old stuff all the time. Lighten up. Enjoy.

Hello Kitty is the icons of icons. Most icons pass. Alas, Twinkies, i.e. Rosie the Riveter . (How famous she was, how quickly she disappeared.) School Valentine's Day parties. Gunsmoke (anyone old enough to remember that one?)

Hello Kitty is still here. Betty Boop is mostly gone. Laurel and Hardy, forgotten.

Hello Kitty is still here. Gotta love it. Hers is a generation's thing. And more generations. Give her her due. Icon of icons.

What he does in humanly impossible. He's not from Japan. He's from a different planet, living in Japan. His superhero outfit is a Los Angles Dodger uniform. I've followed baseball all of my life and studied it from its beginning as well. No one. . .no one. . .no one is better than Shohei Ohtani. It's hard to imagine anyone ever doing what he does as well as he does it. It's a good time to be alive. "I saw Ohtani do. . ." Japan, the US, and wherever baseball is enjoyed should be utterly a fan of his. He doesn't just play well as a Japanese player--he plays as well as the man of steel.

These movies seem interesting. Hollywood just churns same ole same ole. Films that are actually telling stories and taking a different turn than the predictable are good (quite often). Hollywood gets none of my money. I've been watching foreign films for 20 years. I like a fresh idea once in a while. Subtitles don't bother me a bit.

The World Series is dotted in history with superstars not coming through in the clutch. Both Ohtani and Judge were not too productive, but that doesn't mean they had no effect on the game. Both were stressful to pitch to and the pitchers were successful at keeping them from doing what they are capable of. Ralph Houk, a manager of the Yankees once said that Micky Mantle was worth his salary by just being on the bench. Mantle had a poor appearance against the Dodgers and Sandy Koufax back in the 60s. The presents of Ohtani and Judge had an effect on the series beyond their disappointing Series. Baseball's simply that way.

Boy, that's a great photograph. That is one beautiful candle.

Teri Garr was a funny and beautiful actor who made so many films better than would have been without her. "Young Frankenstein" was adorned with her presence. It was heartbreaking when her career ended way to soon. I've never talked to anyone who didn't like her work.

Yes, everyone who sees this as a killer drink will wail away about it. But who drinks seven or eight of these a day? Surely once or twice a week would be a treat and not poison. It looks really good and I would try one and, if I liked it, would occasionally have another every so often. Maybe it's the hidden he-man in me.

Ms. Harris is less psycho and is open to re-open the two sides talking to each other. She is considering having a Republican in her cabinet. Less of a focus on the corporations and the rich. Mr. Trump scares the daylights out of me.

Once again: If anybody can do it, it's Ohtani. The question is: will he be able to hit well? He might have to take a game off it the Series goes more than four games. But. . .if anybody can do it. . .

However unlikely, he might not be done for the whole remaining series. If he isn't, just having him in the lineup can spark the Dodgers. He's probably done though. Just having him on the bench could spark his team anyway. Ralph Houk of the Yankees said that just having Mickey Mantle on the bench was worth what he was paid for.

How and why are speculations and not facts. The guy murdered the woman and was arrested. How and why is irrelevant at this time. We may find that out later.

It's a mystery to me why all the fuss about not having gobs of people drunk on the streets is a bad thing. There are parties that can be organized by the people, perhaps with friends in someone's house. There are other options like having dates. This is not a problem in the US. This is Japan, however, and there must have been problems of some kind with the drunks out on the streets. I rarely see the same thing in the US except for planned and reasonable events in places like in New York. tamanegi has some very good options above.

A fresh idea. Roasted sweet potatoes were a treat for me when I was there. Snacked on one on the way home. Another creative idea. I can still remember the street trucks.

My wife, Asian, knew that more men approached her than her friends because she was Asian. She hated it, and her Asian friends told endless stories about "Asian-Freaks" and "Yellow Fever". We aren't together anymore, but I had a friend gush and gush about how beautiful she was. Watching his behavior I could tell he had a thing for Asian women. I don't know why, but in the US a lot of guys have a thing for Asian women. A guy putting in a new refrigerator one time asked me if I was married. I said yes, she's from Korea. "Wow!" he said. "I wish I had an Asian wife." I see it everywhere. Still don't quite understand the fantasy, but it's real. Ask any Asian woman in the US. Almost all of them have had such an experience. It happens in France, too. Any other place, I don't know, but I can vouch for what Sawai says.

There are quite a few articles about the US (especially politics) that are here on Japan Today. I agree that there should be fewer such topics, but being as how US news is on here pretty heavily, you shouldn't be too surprised about this one coming up.

When I was in Japan (quite a while ago) tipping at restaurants and bars was a no-no. It might be different now. For either country, tips should not be taxed, especially when the wage is less than the minimum. In the US they are, which is just wrong.

Still truckin' in my mind. Working Man's Dead cooked. Cooked with gasoline. "Dire Wolf" still make my head fall right off. Lesh is a legend.

So many posters know about how the Japanese government is wasting tax money. But they never suggest where it should go. It's always more "intellectual" to be negative, especially anonymously.

An attempt at making rural life more appetizing doesn't seem to be a waste to me. But then, I'm being positive. Anonymously.

The same is going on in the US. The working class now is scrambling to get by. The corporations are doing better than ever. The government isn't -- and hasn't -- done a thing about it. From either side of the aisle, I've not heard of a Washington suit stumping for the working class, the working poor, or for the homeless, for that matter. The US is in no better straits than Japan is. Japan is currently having working class problems. No one from the US has any reason to criticize.

piskian -- The true traditions of Hallowe'en comes from "The Day of the Dead" in Mexico. Quite a difference from what it is now. So the Japanese takes it differently. We changed it, too. So who can say Japan is committing something wrong, eh? Celebrate it your way. Don't expect Japan to do it your way, though.

In the west it's extremely common that a sushi bar is owned by a Japanese person. California is home to many Japanese sushi shops. Most are run by a Japanese owner. So rare? Hardly.

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lostrune2 -- I would disagree with you. For one, the stats you've used are too selective. WAR is all of it's manifestations is, by definition, an approximation and is a spurious stat at best. Many sabermetric stats are either not testing for what it is expected that they test. Most are ridiculously trivial. OPS is a good stat but the differences between the two are miniscule. I say selective because you didn't select total bases, which Ohtani had the most of (411).

All that being said, the 50-50 year Ohtani had was, for the fans, probably the most exciting accomplishment of the year. The mind boggles at the achievement. Stats don't always account for fan involvement.

Aaron Judge is incredibly good. 2nd only to Ohtani. But Ohtani simply is the best. Who says so? Aaron Judge, for one.

What I've noticed here in comments is that most of the far-right commenters never make their comment first. This goes to the way the right works. As in these comments, most of the far-horde waits for someone to say something and then they put down what was said and the person who said it. This is the kind of cowardness that encumbers the right. Rather than to think for themselves, they want someone else to do it for them. At least with Harris we know she will make mistakes. I'd be shocked if she didn't because that's never happened ever. I don't want a dictator for a day. No dictator ever stopped after a day. If the far-right wants a country in which one has to watch what they say to a friend because you never know what your friend will do: keep silent or report you, they will be sorry for not thinking for themselves a little.

Trained by non-medical personnel and non-science people who produce this junk, the tired of story of Covid being just for money and vaccines kill more diseases than they prevent are the flag the right flies under. Covid is a thing. Vaccines save lives. Doesn't anyone remember "Pennies for Polio"? I'm glad I'm vaccinated for all that I'm vaccinated for. I don't have a paralyzed leg, the flu, or, yes, even Covid.

Say it ain't so. Maybe (but only maybe) I would eat ramen less often, but even at a high price I would at least eat it frequently, though maybe a little less, though. I don't pretend to know what the dynamics are entirely, but I hope the trend doesn't continue.

"I love you, man" and a very brief hug would do it for me. I don't know if that would do it if who I'm hugging was a woman or not, but 3 minutes ought to be enough.

Clearly, these people do not want to work and be under-paid for the work they do. Pay them what they're worth and move on.

I'll go with science. Doctors didn't wash their hands because at the time they didn't know any better. Medical science matured and they started washing. I don't have polio or the flu or any of the other maladies there are vaccines for because I get the vaccines. Being that science always corrects itself over time, I'm good with that. And I don't believe the nonsense about being over vaccinated. Remember "Pennies for Polio"? I would rather avoid the sicknesses than the vaccines.