Month: February 2006

On June 11, 1963, Duc, a 67-year-old monk from the Linh-Mu Pagoda in Hue, burned himself to death at a busy intersection in Saigon. Prior to the self-immolation, the South Vietnamese Buddhists had made the following requests to...

Via Grist Magazine (a super fun daily read): Old Dog Poop, New Tricks San Francisco looks to harness the power of pet poop      Renewable energy is the sh*t. No, really. San Francisco Bay Area cities are...

I’m still bogged down with work, but here’s Luna to get you started.

Philip Kennicott has an excellent essay in the Washington Post discussing the destruction of the Askariya shrine in Samarra, Iraq. Kennicott compares the destruction of the Askariya shrine to the destruction of the World Trade...

There have been a number of posts about Sherrod Brown’s “mending fences” tour, and there plenty of heated debate as you can see here. Not going to be easy to sort out since Brown did not allow any recording....