Happy Holidays and Other Profanities

Holiday jeers again usurp holiday cheers with the return of  Fox News blowhard Bill O’Reilly’s “anti-Christmas cultural war.” Pre-thanksgiving, while touting his new book in the liberal news media, O’Reilly rebranded himself as a “secularist” with deep abiding love for church-state separation. But with the tour over, this turkey and his fellow Christmas crusaders once [...]

The Children’s Candidate

I wrote this diary entry for the Daily KOS back during the 2008 Texas primary election. In honor of today’s historic election, I thought I would republish it.  
And the little children will teach us….
The Children’s Candidate – more

Remembrances of Storms Past

Since we stalwart residents of the Texas Gulf Coast suffer from post traumatic hurricane exhaustion, I’m much too tired to retell the adventures of the last week as my family evacuated from Hurricane Ike.  Thanks to good karma or just that recently upgraded roof, the storm limited damage to the elderly trees throughout our neighborhood. [...]

Creative Urges

Buddhism and blogging should be dichotomous. Buddhism requires egolessness while blogs proliferate as perhaps the most ego-driven obsession around. To believe that anyone cares about the blogster’s witticisms, banter or jabberings — let alone have a stat counter (which we don’t) serves as the antithesis of Buddha’s teaching of “no self.”
Yet the creative urge [...]