Notes in Samsara

link Or does the blogger leading the crusade to oust legitimately elected Governor Gregroire just assume his readers won't click thr...

Steve Gilliard's piece gets echoed the next day by that nice intolerant guy at WND- well, not really, it's actually much cruder . ...

link According to Deen Gill, a member of Turning Point Christian Center in Vancouver, Wash., the topic of the region's spiritual...

Hugh Hewitt gave a blurb on his blog to Dobson based on this article in US News & World Report. What is odd about this article is t...

By now, lots of bloggers ( Mossback , Joe Carter , and Atrios , e.g.) have weighed in on the unauthenticated memos. So has the Columbia Jour...

Death takes a holiday, thanks to Shokai . That with my BMI and my ambiguous smoker status (currently ex) but good physical shape (I can b...

link Monitoring is intended to track the performance of call center operators, but the professional snoops are inadvertently monitoring...

I had been wondering why the Bush administration decided on using Armstrong Williams to shill the "No Child Left Behind Policy," a...

link Didn't George W. Bush cheerlead in his day? And besides, how many times have we seen butt-nekkid cheerleader pyramids? ...

Salon has a great piece today on the creationist controversy in Dover, PA. I knew about the "wedgie" strategy, and the frauds ...

link ...the Pentagon is intensively debating an option that dates back to a still-secret strategy in the Reagan administration’s bat...

A translation from the Rybo Zen An Japanese Page . Walking zazen ("kinhin", pronounced keen-heen) and zazen, wearing cloth...

link The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe in.'' This phrase, with slight variations, recurs through long years ...

link Most of the pharmacies in China that dispense Western-style medicines have an antiquated, if reassuring, air about them. There are ...

link LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Proclaiming an end to the low-carb diet craze, U.S. weight loss companies are launching a marketing blitz a...

link You can't make this stuff up. Basically women who get pregnant and whose zygotes don't attach to the uterine wall become...

link Now I'd suspect Limbaugh of this forever, but I'm surprised that they picked the "morality" guy that allegedly wa...

as defined by David Gelernter in Commentary. Updated : It appears that the original version of this was perhaps too reactive to the art...

link WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Citing widespread irregularities on Election Day, a handful of House Democrats and one senator objected Thurs...