Tricycle: Dharma Wars

this article is a great example of learning from the mistakes of others. i am afraid at times i might be guilty of the same thing. not of bashing other practitioners, but of throwing general nastiness into cyberspace. all in all, a good article about buddhism and blogging, and something for me to think about. […]

Loving kindness practice

“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking…” -Albert Einstein. This link will take you to the online retreat offered by Tricycle, a Buddhist magazine. It’s an awesome dharma talk – very illuminating. The talk is on loving kindness practice. I am grateful to have come across it, and […]

really, whoever you are? this is important?

clearly some issue over what gets precedence at the white house press briefing. hey lady, who cares about the press social what? i didn’t even know that position existed. and can we get back to the recession, the war, and social injustice already in process?

really tom friedman?

this guy has really bizarre ways of cheerleading for neoliberalism, which seems the primary focus of this article. but this op piece takes the cake. as i walked across campus today, there were people handing out fliers, talking about the escalation of the war in afghanistan. president obama inherited a quagmire from president bush, and […]

no one saw this coming?

the giant bubble in dubai finally burst. you mean to tell me NO ONE saw this coming? the question now is, how will this affect the people who depend on credit to survive? you know. the small people who can’t find the capital to buy a ford fiesta, let alone finance out-of-control capitalists?

future, and history, of journalism

i have been sick for the past week, but i have given a great deal of thought to journalism, especially its future and its history. i have a great deal of grading to do, but wanted to throw a couple of thoughts into the large, vacuous space that is the internet. over the past year […]