mushin no shin

Awesome, in one night I can give example and counterexample to the ancient question of irony;
it’s not ironic that my knee injury forced me to miss karate tonight.
It is ironic that this leaves me home on a night the television happens to deliver both a show called “Bones”, and Doc Opera about an alcoholic curmudgeon [...]

I add, “I think I threw my knee out playing piano”.

Got my 2nd Degree Brown Belt today. It was actually pretty late, I should have been there in January, but I had my sabbatical in December which set me back a month, plus another month or two to get back where I was. Still not there really, but enough so to pass.
Anyway, onward.

As you know, I’ve been following a trail of breadcrumbs back through the pantheon of late twentieth century songs which aspired, in fact demanded under no uncertain terms, that the artist|performer, the audience, or both, are currently or soon-to-be engaged in either the act of rocking, or the process of getting rocked, most frequently by [...]

Holy shit. Let me tell you how in love I am with the movie Once.
It would be hyperbolic of me to say that it has paralleled my life — but absolutely it tangentially intersected enough to feel like a 90 minute sucker punch to the heart.
I do have to share one particular scene, in [...]

Noted geolibertarian economist Fred Foldvary tells us that William F. Buckley understood the unique role that natural resources play in our political economy, though he lacked the will to make the case:

Buckley’s intellectual development was influenced strongly by the Georgist libertarians Albert Nock and Frank Chodorov. [...] Nock and Chodorov were free-marketeers, geolibertarians who recognized [...]

Friday night was a real treat, as the phenomenal percussionist Evelyn Glennie performed a concerto for percussion and strings with the Nashville Symphony. It was an interesting piece, working in three movements — wood, metal, and skin, each focused around instruments of the named varieties. What I didn’t realize until a friend mentioned it during [...]

You might remember that a few weeks ago we discovered that Phil Valentine needs gay marriage to be illegal, because government permission is the only thing keeping him from giving in to his cravings for a lifetime of hot bovid lovin’. Well Phil, if you get a chance, tonight’s your last chance to see the [...]

I got a message that someone named ‘Leslie Carbone” was following me on twitter. Having no idea who this is, I clicked through to her web page. I scattershot clicked on a link, which took me to a National Review article, which she apparently wrote. I won’t give her filth the dignity of a link, [...]

I got a spam this morning from one of the Christianist outfits pimping Huckabee. Before getting into the meat of trying to double talk around explaining how a CATO F-rated governor is really a fiscal conservative, they trotted out this little gem:

and as Churchill said “we have nothing to fear but fear itself”

What’s the matter? [...]