"Enact strategy broadly, correctly and openly. Then you will come to think of things in a wide sense and, taking the Void as the Way, you will see the Way as Void. [...] In the Void is virtue, and no evil."
--Miamoto Musashi, Go Rin No Sho

Those who are alike in pleasure and pain are truly wise and fit for immortality.
--Bhagavad Gita, 2:15
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This weekend, our nation celebrated the holiday of Thanksgiving. While there is a great deal of history enmeshed in this holiday and its origins--some honorable, some shameful--it is the spirit of the holiday upon which we should focus ( Read more... )

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If not for the torrent of words racing through my mind, I would say that I am speechless.

I just finished watching the HBO documentary Hacking DemocracyI have known about the issues concerning electronic voting for a while now, and I paid close attention to the reports of discrepancies and irregularities in this last election. This documentary, ( Read more... )

Relationships, almost by definition, require a flow in two directions. Professional, personal, private; it doesn't matter. Each party must give and each party must take. Anything else is parasitic ( Read more... )

Between "now" and "never" is a concept known as "soon ( Read more... )

In my life I have tilted at more than my share of windmills. I have rushed in like a white knight only to find the damsel was unwilling to be saved ( Read more... )

Last Tuesday was the pinnacle of the 2006 election season. Thursday was its end--when George Allen conceded the election to James Webb ( Read more... )

I have never worn the uniform of this great nation; it has been neither my calling nor my honor. But I have always held in the highest regard those who have chosen to place the security of this nation above their own lives ( Read more... )

I was talking with a co-worker this week about politics (yeah, I know, dangerous situation) and he made a comment that got me thinking. He said his "dream ticket" for the 2008 Presidential Election would be McCain/Feingold. I must admit that I'm not entirely conversant with McCain's record or philosophy. However, with only a few exceptions, I' ( Read more... )