mushin no shin

Overheard on NPR this morning:
Traffic brought to you by your Toyota Dealers of Middle Tennessee…
Heehee. Indeed. Though the other brands & dealers do share some of the blame as well, don’t they?

A quick pointer to an excellent post by Kevin Carson on a “Contract with America” type proposal for uniting Democrats, Greens, & Libertarians. Via Kn@ppster.

Well, it seems Chris is going to hell. I think I’ll get there first though: waaaaay back when, even before the bands, I performed in some comedy troupes, and we once had an Easter Sunday show — during which I played Jesus, dutifully skipping through the audience in a speedo passing out eggs.
Update: But these [...]

It’s past one and I need sleep, but I need to post now, while I’m still drunk and my head’s still wired –
I’m a fucking magnet for weirdness (did I mention I’m not a vampire?).
So I’m at NV. I finally dragged myself out to Salvation. The dark, the noise, the smoke, the fire — oh, [...]

I figure it’s about time I dig back into the archives and post a little more music.
I guess it was 93? 94? when I first hooked up with guitarist Jim LeClair. Wait, actually this is easy, hold on a sec — December 5, 1993. It was the day after Frank Zappa died. Jim worked with [...]

This was originally going to be one of the bullets below, but I decided it warranted a post of its own. Every week I try to go online to listen to NPR’s “Live in Studio C“. And so I just got through listening to this week’s fantastic performance of original music by harpist Timbre Cierpke, [...]

Thursday was my birthday, and I’ve got to say it’s been one of the best in recent memory. Mostly because we had a fantastic meal at what is IMHO the best restaurant in town, and I was pleased that my initially skeptical family enjoyed it as well. Partly also because it was followed by a [...]

I’ve had a post on this subject rolling ’round my head, but I’m feeling a tad lazy, and since the subject came up on the LPTN list, I’ll basically just copy my post there to here:
On Monday 10 April 2006 06:31 pm, terry12622000 wrote:
> Boortz was going on and on about the immigrants being law
> [...]

The farthest left you can go, historically at any rate, is anarchism — the total opposition to any institutionalized power, a state of completely voluntary social organization in which people would establish their ways of life in small, consenting groups, and cooperate with others as they see fit.
The above quote from Karl Hess well exemplifies [...]