Ignorance is one of the major obstacles that we encounter, according to Buddhist teaching.  The 'three poisons' as they are called, that form the very center of the endless round of life and death, are lust, hatred, and ignorance.  And usually ignorance is seen as lack of knowledge, percep...

Happy "Hump" Day! As the week is fast-forwarding (time flies when you're having Lent, eh???) I wanted to take a minute out to post these two resources that have helped me in my study and reflection in the past few days -- hope you'll find them helpful, too!=====This week the All Saints' Lenten Toolk...

We're saying goodbye to our eldest Sister this week. Sister Loretta would have turned 99 years old this June, but she decided to celebrate that birthday in heaven. (Although there is some confusion as to what year she was actually born). The picture is from this past Christmas Eve. We have a traditi...

Hold up a bill long enough and politicians might actually read the damn thing. I am sure this is the only lesson Senate Majority leader, Harry Reid, will have learned from the whole $410 billion omnibus spending bill fiasco. Instead of gaining the one vote Reid was short to get 60 votes, the little ...

The title is the first line in a New York Post article. Their headline shows "Perv Group Puts 10G 'hit' on Andy". The "perv" group they are speaking of is NAMBLA. A $10,000 Internet bounty was placed on Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's head by a suspected agent of the North American Man/Boy Love Asso...

Jason Mattera from Hot Air TV took a trip to the capitol and spoke to Charlie Rangel about his ethics scandals. Seems Charlie didn't like being confronted and thinks people should mind their own goddamned business about how he uses tax payer's monies. Video below, YouTube URL here. So, what was the ...

Today is officially day 8, but technically day 6 since I accidentally took the weekend off.  What?  Don't judge me; there were birthdays to celebrate and alcohol to consume which, now that I think about it, led to much crazy, foolish, we're-not-21-anymore-but-we-don't-care, o...

Like, totally awesome! 10 videos of people trying their American accents. [via Andrew Sullivan] It calls to mind two items. During the summer of 82, when the song “Valley Girl” was getting tons of airplay, I heard tell of the song from the mentions of friends long before I managed to cat...

Joking around is one thing, but when joking around with another country's diplomats, one should really try to make sure you have translated the joke correctly or it falls flat, as evidenced by Hillary Clinton with a "gag" gift to Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, seen in the above video. Fro...

(Glenn Beck) While the majority of the media is busy explaining , excusing or defending Barack Obama's broken campaign promises, bad proposals and socialistic tendencies, Fox News has taken the position of calling him out publicly and challenging him. In the short time since Glenn Beck left CNN to h...