Tanoshii00 comments

Love good cuts of beef that are well-priced. I've had good cuts of American beef in Japan, but it's always been expensive. With the price of American beef going up, I've been buying Aussie beef, even as an American. It's simply economics. Charge more and people will buy less. I wish the president would get it.

GW, you can get a Weber Q1200, (or Q1250 if you prefer small camping-style cans) or the Q2200 or Q3200. All are portable and available in Japan. I have a Q1250 on my balcony. It works like a charm.

I am sure the referees are happy with the money they are getting to throw games. When you have several star players sent off with red cards, players who haven't been sent off for red cards or second yellow cards for many years, (Kaka, Klose, etc), it sounds like something funny is going on. I don't even like Australia's team, but Kewell getting a handball penalty and an automatic red card in the game against Ghana, when the ball hit him in the chest, was ridiculous, especially when it was obvious that it wasn't intentional. When you think back to the Germany-Serbia game and there was an obviously intentional handball that was only given a yellow card and a PK, you wonder if there is any standard at all in these WC games...