An e-mail I just received this afternoon from Ashin Ariyadhamma links to this Newsdesk Special story claiming that General Maung Aye, second-in-command in Burma’s military junta, has stage a coup against Than Shwe. Earlier I saw speculation concerning a split in the junta’s top ranks at mizzima.com, a Thailand-based website reporting news from […]
Milinda’s Questions
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Zizek’s critique of Buddhism
I’ve recently run across several interesting items in the blogosphere concerning Engaged Buddhism. Given my penchant for cutting-and-pasting large chunks of undigested text, it’s really too much material for a single post, so I’m going to split it up over several installments. (Spitting out large undigested chunks is a whole lot easier than […]
Noted and quoted
Agree or disagree, this is eloquent:
What makes the American left silly? Things that in a vacuum should be logical impossibilities are frighteningly common in lefty political scenes. The word “oppression†escaping, for any reason, the mouths of kids whose parents are paying 20 grand for them to go to private colleges. Academics in Priuses using […]
August 6
Pearls of Wisdom:Shelley at BurningBird asked for a followup to my brief Pearl Harbor post. Here goes. In 1941 the U.S. had imposed an oil embargo on Japan in retaliation for its occupation of Indochina (Vietnam.) The Japanese decided on a bold move: they would destroy the U.S. fleet in Hawaii, seize […]
Noted & Quoted
This succint statement of evident truth appeared in Sunday’s New York Times:
In his preface to ”The Future of Media” (a collection of articles edited by Robert W. McChesney, Russell Newman and Ben Scott), Bill Moyers writes that ”democracy can’t exist without an informed public.” If this is true, the United States is not a democracy […]
