Anime essays

Eugene Woodbury, best translator of the Juuni Kokki novels, occasionally blogs about other things.

On Plastic Little, and strong buttkicking but still sexual women in anime, vs. a minor presence on TV and near absence in modern movies.

The geopolitical sophistication of My Zhime/Mai Otome.

Geeks in love, rambling over to Japan's temporal closeness to its feudal roots, and un-fossilized tradition.

Linkage

LOLParrot

Huckabee endorses wifely submission. Fred Thompson calls him a liberal. All the GOPers endorse more tax cuts, because the federal government is running such a surplus right now... McCain says US was founded as a Christian nation.

Majikthiese notes the various male Presidents who have cried in public, without the grief that Hillary Clinton is getting over her voice wavering.

Greta Christina on the harm of woo-woo thinking. Links in passing to the total failure of a whole slew of phone pet psychics to detect that the pet in question did not exist.

(from pompe) More on how US doesn't regard foreigners as having any rights.

Dead heart stripped of cells, remaining matrix repopulated with stem cells. Woo!