Notes in Samsara

The LA Times reports : Top aides to President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were intensely focused on discrediting former Ambassador J...

Frank Rich is loaded with them today . So put aside Mr. Wilson's February 2002 trip to Africa. The plot that matters starts a month lat...

With apologies to Quentin Tarantino ... Karl Rove, I'd like to introduce my friend, the Patrick Fitzgerald. Patrick Fitzgerald? This is ...

Vladimir Pozner, former Radio Moscow personality, who may be the kind of media person Judith Miller aspired to be. Atrios is going in the ri...

This , the latest salvo from the right, mindlessly echoed by people who should know better (it's amusing how they try), attempts to pin ...

I love that word, "perp," and I so rarely get a chance to use it when blogging. But today's treasongate coverage of Rove seems...

John Dean, a man who's got experience in this area, envisions a storm of feceses bearing down on Rove of biblical proportions : I am re...

What more to say?

Link ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 - An influential Muslim scholar, whom prosecutors called a "purveyor of hate and war," was ordered o...

From here : １回の呼吸が１０～１５秒程度です。これで用意万端です。 次に、雑念に振り回されないため、呼吸の数を数えると良いでしょう。 線香１本の燃える時間２０～２５分を一炷（いっしゅ）といい、坐禅の時間単位です。 1 complete breath [inhalati...

I haven't posted anything in a while on zen, and thought this would be a useful thing to record: To regulate breath is very important i...

Well, go to Wikipedia : Joseph C. Wilson IV (born November 6 , 1949 ) was a United States career foreign service officer and later a d...

Link Valerie Plame was a classmate of mine from the day she started with the CIA. I entered on duty at the CIA in September 1985. All of m...

Get prepared for a barrage of Repub propaganda to distract from Rove's approximate alleged treason: WASHINGTON, July 12 - For the first ...

This is flying fast and furious- the weak defenses that "Rove didn't know what he was doing," or "it's not clear she ...

Atrios clears it up for you here and here . Valerie Plame's name was not secret. The fact that she was married to Wilson was not secret...

This articule in the Nation (evidently subscription only) shows just what a disaster Bush's policy has been to keep us safe from "...

Link Hackers are the Internet equivalent of Richard Reid, the shoe-bomber who didn't manage to hurt anyone on his airplane but has been ...

He's not ready to have a fork stuck in him, but Salon puts the pieces together to explain even to righties why Rove must go : There are...

It seems the DC press corps has finally figured out that a) Karl Rove's legal problems are a real story, and b) McClellan's acting,...