Imagine.

Can a dog have the Buddha nature?

I have always thought so.

Imagine this. Communities will almost have to be more self-sustaining in the future. How far away is that? Is that $4 bucks a gallon? Five? That could be next year...


Y'know, if we could trust everyone to act honestly and without regulation, then we wouldn't need prisons. The very fact that prisons -and punishment in general, as a concept- exist is testament to the idiotic nature of the Republican ideal of a "free market." They just want an excuse to act unethically.

Don't get me wrong: competition is not bad! It's natural, it's inevitable, it drives us to new heights of all kinds. That's not my point. I just think a lot of our problems would disappear if we reinstated the fairness doctrine. The arguments against it are absurd.

Senator Stevens, the American people think you're empty and ugly too, can we drill you for oil? We're not asking why there isn't enough energy (what??). We're wondering how control of all the energy ended up in such few hands. How about you start talking?

Sydney Blumenthal has a somewhat complicated, but complete, digest of the scandals beseiging George's pals and the Republican party. Essential reading for the politically perplexed!