"Barbara O’Brien’s wide-ranging account of Zen history is conveyed with a master storyteller’s ability to keep the forest from getting lost in a myriad of trees. Wearing her scholarship lightly, she blends just the right amount of skepticism about her hagiographic sources with a deep appreciation for the Dharma." — Barry Magid, author of
Nothing Is Hidden and
Ending the Pursuit of Happiness Order here!
Someone should point out to Broder that there was a cephalopod (recently deceased, to the chagrin of all NFL fans) who picked EVERY World Cup game correctly, and how, with any ONE pick, it was right more often than the ‘Dean of Calumnyist’s” has been in at least ten years.
Of course, in the Ol’ Dean’s world, if an octopus has 7 legs on the right and one one the left, it’s balanced and bipartisan.
YeeeesH!
I forgot one thing. Broder could point to hiw fellow WaPo ‘calummyist’ Bloody Bill “Wrong AGAIN!” Kristol and say he’s had a much better record in the last quarter of a century than him.
I swear, bivalves are smarter than most WaPo Op0ed writers.
Oh please, please, please, if you need a laugh take a look at this. It’s the song stylings of Vladimir Putin. If you have Depends, I recommend donning them. Enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV4IjHz2yIo
Vlad makes Boris and Natasha seem fluent in English.
We have to sign START now, while we still can. Because if the Russians are as far behind in nuclear as they are in Rock & Roll technology, we clearly still have the upper hand.
PS: Bonus points if you can identify all of the Hollywood stars in attendance there.
I wait with bated breath a column, probably in later January, from Broder or Milbank or Kristol describing how beneficial to the lives of ordinary Americans that a Republican controlled House is now tackling the irksome problem of a national debt $1 trillion higher than it was before Obama’s ‘solution’ was passed in December.
They will argue that austerity, belt-tightening, and fiscal prudence will only strengthen the American character (not to mention be a measure of our undying patriotism) as the Republican majority in the House gleefully (and finally justifiable?) slashes away at any program that even smells of social or economic justice for the 90% of us whose total wealth is $2 trillion less than the wealth of $16.8 trillion held by the richest 1% of us.
Solving the debt/deficit ‘problem’ off the backs of 90% will only make us stronger, better people. (cund – It’s comforting to know that there is at least one other (you) in the process of cracking up along with me.)
Felicity,
My grasp on reality is now about as tenous as that of a greased snake trying to find a handhold at the edge of a cliff.