Telling Storiestag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-3751952009-12-07T12:15:47-05:00"Write it down, but it doesn't mean, you're not just telling stories"
Tracy Chapman
TypePadThe Time is Nowtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c06b553ef012876242627970c2009-12-07T12:15:47-05:002009-12-07T12:15:47-05:00About four years ago or so, when I became an Unitarian Universalist, I was talking to our minister and I told him that I wanted to grow spiritually and to "get my house in order" so to speak, so I...El_LocoBelieving What You Believe Intag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c06b553ef0120a6255bdc970b2009-10-27T15:08:18-04:002009-10-27T15:08:18-04:00I've been checking out several Buddhist blogs recently. And by "Buddhist blogs" I mean blogs that talk about Buddhism, practice, etc., and not necessarily blogs by Buddhists (though most of them are). I was somewhat surprised at the amount of...El_LocoHis Holiness the Dalai Lama on Political Correctnesstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c06b553ef0120a65c45e2970c2009-10-20T14:25:18-04:002009-10-20T14:25:18-04:00Via Precious Metal: The Dalai Lama was recently in the Czech capital at a conference on Human Rights issues in Asia. He was asked what he thought of political correctness. With a look not often found on His Holiness’ face,...El_LocoThe Futuretag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c06b553ef0120a505011a970b2009-08-19T13:32:31-04:002009-08-19T13:32:31-04:00As my faithful readers - all three of them - may have noticed, I've been pretty slow to blog for a while. I've been pondering whether I want to keep blogging and, if so, whether I want to keep talking...El_LocoHaving Your Cake and Eating it Tootag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c06b553ef01157246f75c970b2009-07-29T17:19:26-04:002009-07-29T17:19:26-04:00That seems to be the message from a NYT/CBS News Poll: Most Americans continue to want the federal government to focus on reducing the budget deficit rather than spending money to stimulate the national economy, a new New York Times/CBS...El_Loco"Obama-Gates"-Gatetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c06b553ef0115713bea8b970c2009-07-24T14:04:43-04:002009-07-24T15:33:43-04:00Via CBS News: I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own...El_LocoI Love America!!! But . . . tag:typepad.com,2003:post-684807032009-06-25T09:01:06-04:002009-06-25T09:01:28-04:00. . . I'm really getting fed up with our puritanical obsession about sexual matters. I'm talking about Gov. Mark Sandford. In my opinion, the only thing he did that's worth taking him to task over was leaving for Argentina...El_LocoConservatives Engage in CENSORSHIP (as Defined by a Fellow Conservative)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-681586012009-06-16T09:23:13-04:002009-06-16T09:23:13-04:00In response to my last post, a fellow blogger and I had the following exchange (relevant parts only): El Loco: I don't think the original comment was a personal attack, but rather, a bad joke. A really ill-conceived bad joke....El_Loco"Sarah Palin & David Letterman : Dan Quayle & Murphy Brown"?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-680235952009-06-12T10:25:16-04:002009-06-12T10:25:16-04:00I really don't know what to make of this. To me, it was clear from the first time I heard Letterman's monologue that he was referring to Bristol Palin. Sarah Palin's older daughter whose out-of-wedlock teenage pregnancy became something of...El_LocoThe Most Adequate Representation of New York State's Senatetag:typepad.com,2003:post-679925632009-06-11T13:21:34-04:002009-06-11T13:21:34-04:00I don't think we need to elaborate . . .El_Loco