Monks Protesting in Burma
Photo credit: racoles.

Here’s to hoping that the oppressed people can stand strong together and shake off their ugly military dictatorship! I’ve spent a good deal of time in South East Asia, but only got a mile from the border of Burma/Myanmar because of the terrible situation in that country and the border skirmishes with Thailand at the time.

Down with tyranny!


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  • Only without the absinthe and the knowing winks.
  • Wow, thanks for the tips, Whimsy. That article is amazing! What I wouldn't give for a little salon culture in America. I guess that's what this is, no? This blogging?
  • Wonder what the decadent, preening anti-humanist pomo academics will say about this country's desperate attempt to act in accordance with liberal humanist values. If only we were so brave!

    Speaking of great humanists, read this essay on Egon Freidell, a giant in the prewar Vienna cafe culture, now long dead. He was hunted by the Gestapo, and was forced to leap to his death from his window--and yet, shouted a warning to people below as he fell.

    http://www.slate.com/id/215992...
  • It's so awesome! We should call this the Monk Revolution!
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