recently something (I forget what, b/c I didn’t get to my blog promptly) triggered this thought, that our society (I’d prefer not to use the overloaded term “world”) is bent on doing anything and everything that a person wants to do, unrestrained freedom and license, as if the body and the material world was the […]

tonight’s the last night of the PBS special, Becoming American, totally 6 hours of re-telling the stories of the Chinese people coming to America.. I’ve been videotaping it on timer and will watch it later at a time of my own choosing.. the most fascinating thing is their interactive storytelling at http://www.pbs.org/becomingamerican/portraits/ where they’re collecting […]

… salient sound bites from NYT article “The New Chinatown? Try the Asian Mall” –
“In Safeway, it’s fillet,” said Frank Chang, a 35 year-old engineer from Fremont. “Chinese people feel more comfortable when they see the fish’s head.”
Mr. Kwong, who was born in Hong Kong, appreciates such consumer loyalty. But he also knows that change […]

… been watching some of the war coverage on and off, and hearing of anti-war protesters around the country and world as well.. and slowly over recent times, I’ve been reading up on politics and politcal theory, and the ugly rantings of the liberals and conservatives, both terms often used as pejoratives, but used as […]

Liberals Like Christ
fascinating rationale that Jesus was a liberal, rather than the common notion of being a conversative as loudly trumpted by the “Religious Right”, and this site asserts a whole different and contrasting perspective of how to apply the meaning of the text to life and politics