2019-07-30 23:08
What is the past? Is it real anymore? Does it hide like a child from a parent when he/she has done something wrong? When you bring it up driving,is it present like the roses growing on the s… Read More
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2019-07-09 19:37
A committee should govern the executive branch,not one president. Power should be shared like the other branches of government. Ultimate authority isn't something that can rest in one person… Read More
2019-07-08 09:25
What is a fan of a sports team like the Brooklyn Nets? Is he or she similar to a movie or music fan? Does a fan always have to have his team win? Is there more to it than rooting for success… Read More
2019-07-06 15:03
Nicaragua,El Salvador, Guatemala and Hondorus have thirty-two million people living in their combined countries. Fifty percent of these citizens live in extreme poverty(16 million). Children… Read More
2014-04-18 12:00
Buddhism is an educational movement.A system that trains the mind and tries to help an individual overcome unsatisfactory periods.The practice is difficult and great effort is needed because… Read More
2014-04-17 13:51
Maddow created a to-do list in "Drift"Going to war,being at war,should be painful for the entire country,from the start.When we ship troops off to battle,we should pay for it.Raise it throug… Read More
2014-04-17 13:14
Maddow dedicates her new book"Drift" to Dick Cheney who refuses to be interviewed by Rachel.9/11 has led us into Kabul at a rate of $5 billion a month over ten years and counting.It is still… Read More
2014-03-28 14:15
If one conceives of 'self', then one must also conceive of 'other'. Attachment and aversion arise as a result of these two conceptions- of self and other. As a result of relationships a… Read More
2014-03-28 11:45
The thought manifests as the wordThe word manifests as the deedThe deed develops into habitAnd habit hardens into characterSo watch the thought and its ways with careAnd let it spring from l… Read More
2014-03-15 22:52
Do you want full employment,with decent pay, for all our citizens? Robert Pollin has some strategies in his book"Back To Full Employment" that might help us along the way to reach this goal… Read More
2013-09-10 19:11
2013-08-02 13:34
2013-07-22 11:09
Moderate vs. Extremist Views in the Muslim World Read More
2013-07-08 10:47
2013-07-01 11:36
2013-06-17 15:58
John Hope III,chairman of Whitney National Bank in New Orleans, received $$300 million in TARP funds was quoted as saying "make more loans?We're not going to change our business model or our… Read More
2013-06-14 19:42
This book was written by Neil Barofsky who was the former Special Inspector General in charge of the oversight of TARP(Troubled Asset Relief Program).His office SIGTARP was created by Congre… Read More
2013-06-09 23:34
Richard Wolff - Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism Read More
2013-04-09 12:48
The thrust of the Buddha Dhamma is not directed to the creation of new political institutions and establishing political arrangements. Basically, it seeks to approach the problems of society… Read More
2013-04-08 23:40
Paul Krugman's new book"End This Depression Now" reviews the banking system that went wild,the dismantling of the 1930 laws that protected consumers against new banking crises,the big lie th… Read More
2013-03-11 22:31
The reformation of income inequality in the U.S. will come from the loving elites who will finally escape from their illusion of self and extend their transformed hands/hearts to the brother… Read More
2013-03-11 19:07
I'm listening to Charles Mingus"Blues and Roots" playing Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting and thinking about income inequality,Vermont Castings wood stoves and the blues of Alvin Lee. If I fol… Read More
2013-03-06 19:58
I just completed reading "Twilight of the Elites" by Chris Hayes,an insurrectionist, who stands up to institutional elites like a doe protecting a fawn from a coyote.He starts the book… Read More
2013-02-17 17:58
2013-02-12 20:40
The phrase"Be Here Now" was a book I read in 1971 by Ram Dass who left Harvard(friend of Tim Leary) to study and live in India.I took from it some elements that has shaped my thinking… Read More
2013-01-25 20:29
It's been awhile since I wrote anything in this blog because I've strayed from following and observing economics and politics in our world and country(USA).It's not that I don't care about o… Read More
2013-01-24 01:11
2012-10-11 16:24
Were the Esopus Indians of the Hudson River Buddhists?They had an understanding of the inter-connectedness of life that Buddhist teach.They believed in the sacredness of life,an equalization… Read More
2012-09-05 10:22
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