February 22, 2006
I have had a hard time making sense of the cartoon scandal, in which people have died and the Danes have felt — so far — at least some economic blowback. Who wants the challenge of seeing one’s prophet depicted in absurd or degrading ways?
January 18, 2006
Karma is not fatalistic or pre-determined.
November 30, 2005
President Bush made yet another “major policy” speech on the war in Iraq today, accompanied by the release of his National Strategy for Victory in Iraq, a 35 page document attractively bound in a cover of red, white, and blue.
November 15, 2005
Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life itself reveals again and again the opposite: letting go is the path to real freedom.
October 21, 2005
From the “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” files:
Knock yourself out.
July 7, 2005
It’s quite something how exploding metal can ruin your day, isn’t it?
June 28, 2005
These days, the President reminds me of nothing so much as one of those pre-historic wasps, trapped in a solid block of crystalline amber. Perhaps the image is more akin to a hapless sauropod, flailing about helplessly in what a five year-old would call “the hot lava,” at the dawn of time.
May 15, 2005
There’s a religious revolution going on in this country, all right.
March 12, 2005
George W. Bush’s Snake Oil & Medicine Show rolled into my hometown of Memphis, TN on Friday, where the affable, self-styled champion of the Wondrous and Amazing Effects of Freedom and Democracy did his best to scare the bejeezus out of a hand-picked crowd of True Believers.
November 15, 2004
As the great man himself, Ronald Wilson Reagan, would say, “There you go again.”