Twenty years of posts on geopolitics, philosophy, media, investing and whatever else has my attention.
We explore how the Shaolin temple got involved in martial arts and the role Chan Buddhism played in Shaolin, China and kung fu.
Twenty years ago today, way back in November 2004, I recorded my first podcast. It was the very early days of podcasting, which really kicked off in August…
“At the moment that the “normal” police and military resources of the bourgeois dictatorship, together with their parliamentary screens, no longer suffice to hold society in a state…
I don’t think people in the United States are taking the warnings about Trump’s inherent fascist tendencies seriously enough. Why would you hand over power to someone you…
As a lifelong fan of Doctor Who and BTTF, it pains me to have to be the one to point out to people that time travel is probably…
I’ve been a fan of the Hsin Hsin Ming (aka Xin Xin Ming), “Verses on the Faith Mind ” by Seng-ts’an, the Third Zen Patriarch [d. 606 CE] , since…
When will we get the first AI religion?