Regarding the topic at hand, there is a passage I would like to quote first. It comes from "The Enemy" (2004), one of the novels in the series featuring the truly compelling protagonist Jack Reacher, written by Lee Child—an author whose work I love and read avidly. It is a conversation Jack Reacher has with a certain woman. "I have to go to Paris," I said. "Paris, Texas?" she said. "Or Paris, Kentucky, or Paris, Tennessee?" "Paris, France," I said. "The Enemy" by Lee Child (p

Saturday, September 15, 2012 (Friday, September 14 in the US). I was off work and watching a live broadcast of a major league game at home (in Tokyo, Japan). The game was between the Texas Rangers and the Seattle Mariners at the Texas Rangers' home stadium. The starting pitchers were Yu Darvish for the Rangers and Hisashi Iwakuma for the Mariners, and it was a match between two Japanese pitchers. The Rangers were batting in the bottom of the eighth inning with the Rangers l