Entries
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On March 5, 2026, City Journal published an entertaining and thoughtful essay by Ilya Shapiro titled Two Decades in t...
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I made predictions leading up to the July and September grand sumo tournaments. Before July’s Nagoya Basho I made pic...
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On October 28, 2026, I published Churanoumi Becomes First Sumo Wrestler From Okinawa to Reach Sanyaku. I cited to a n...
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From late 2008 until 2017, I followed an anime review website called The Nihon Review. It died in 2017, but survived ...
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On August 13, 2026, The Washington Free Beacon reported that Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed had, in 2023, c...
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It is time for a special Election Day edition of the Pook-Emu Bee links. However, I do not have many election-themed ...
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Yesterday, I wrote about how Tamawashi became the oldest sumo wrestler (41, turning 42 on November 16) to make his re...
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My Pook-Emu Bee link backlog is growing with my continued failure to publish daily link collections. It is time to tu...
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Tamwashi began the year as the oldest sumo wrestler in the top makuuchi division at 41. Unfortunately, his records of...
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I came across the following writing prompt on the Umai Yomu Anime Blog: “If you HAD to rewatch an anime 10 times in a...
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EWTN, citing to statistics compiled by Agenzia Fides, reports that Africa now has a larger Catholic population than E...
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I have reviewed many visual novels written in Ren’Py (I also published a visual novel that I wrote in Ren’Py). I want...
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I encourage people to follow this site and The New Leaf Journal via feed. But while I welcome feed readers, I do not ...
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The Jamestown Foundation published an article by Peter Fazekas on the formation of a new minority government in Roman...
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Churanoumi became the first sumo wrestler from Okinawa Prefecture to reach sumo wrestling’s sanyaku ranks. He will ma...
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I read a report (such as this is) in the New York Post titled NYC coffee shop serves up pumpkin spice lattes — inside...
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It has been two weeks since Pook-Emu Bee Links. To be fair, I have had a good amount of work and have been fairly pro...
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After a nine-day work/NLJ/newsletter-induced lull in the Pook-Emu Bee, I return with my sometimes-regularly-scheduled...
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I receive remarkable amounts of comment spam on The New Leaf Journal’s Guestbook page, but I seldom receive pingback/...
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I documented my then-new Gingerbread Man Soap Dispenser on The New Leaf Journal last December. I then documented my s...