No hate can hurt, no foe can harm, as hurts and harms a mind ill-disciplined. -Buddha No nation in the history of the world spends more on defending itself than the United States. According to the Defense Department, the U.S. will expend $687 billion in 2013 on the military, with an additional $54 billion for […]
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Is That A Gun Or Are You Just Glad To See Me?
August 4, 2012 
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German police fired a total of 85 bullets in 2011. 49 were warning shots. With the rest, 15 people were wounded and 6 killed by police countrywide for the entire year. As a contrast, in the U.S. in 2011, 84 shots were fired by police at a single murder suspect in Harlem. 90 rounds were […]
Continue readingLiving In Oz
May 20, 2012 0 Comments
Two monks were arguing about a flag. One said, “The flag is moving.” The other said, “The wind is moving.” A sage happened to be passing by. He told them, “Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving.” – a Zen koan Freud said that society is a universal human fantasy. The nations, […]
Continue readingIf It Walks Like A Duck
April 29, 2012 0 Comments
In 2012, the United States will spend more than $1 trillion on the defense department and war. We spend more on the military than we do anything else in the federal budget. The 2012 allocation for education is $77.4 billion, or approximately 7% of what we splurge on defending ourselves. Cancelling the space shuttle saved […]
Continue readingThe Rampage of Sgt. Bales
March 25, 2012 2 Comments
“My rage, my fury would drive me now to hack your flesh away and eat you raw – such agonies you have caused me.” -Achilles At the beginning of the Iliad, we find Achilles sulking in his tent. Refusing to fight, because Agamemnon took his sexy, blonde war prize, Achilles doesn’t lift a finger even […]
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