There is a story of a Zen master whose monastery and surrounding countryside were threatened by the savage destructiveness of a barbaric war lord. Everyone but the old Zen master fled. When the war lord heard that the old monk had not left he was infuriated and came to confront the master. With drawn sword he said to the old man, 'Why haven't you ( Read more... )

President Obama upheld Bush's Religious Discrimination Policy:
Proving he’s no amateur when it comes to tacking as far right or left as necessary to capture some vital constituency, President Barack Obama recently upheld a key Bush administration policy allowing groups receiving federal dollars to discriminate in hiring on the basis of religion ( Read more... )

Now let's have some bread and cider to celebrate the end of summer.

Yeah, yeah, I'm slow on this. I've had this book sitting around my stack of "to read" for years. Literally. It is the hardback first edition version that I snagged from my dad after reading "Angels and Demons" some time ago. I suppose I never picked it up before because I hate hardback books - so unwieldy and heavy to carry in a school bag all day ( Read more... )

...is going out of business. Who knew?

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The scary Christians came to my school with big scary people-high signs and even bigger agendas. I can't help but think of iwontsayplease when I type this. Didn't this happen at her school a while back? But it's so weird to have something like this at a very liberal college in California. This ain't no religious college, this here college is for beach bunnies, ( Read more... )