I am very supportive of Mike Gravel’s National Initiative, but I cannot be very certain that it will really happen given the huge obstacle it is facing (just look at Mike Gravel’s presidential campaign, we know what kind of difficulty lays ahead of us). But if we extend National Initiative to a bigger picture, which [...]
Archive for July, 2008
National Initiative and Law 2.0: Empower the people to make laws
Posted in Grassroots on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am large, I contain multitudes
Posted in Random Thoughts on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I thought this would be a good line for Stewie from Family Guy.
Comments on Blessed Unrest
Posted in Grassroots on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just finished the book Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken. I will comment briefly here.
First, the book promoted me to think about what the social change would have been in the past for different cultures if it was carried out in peace.
To help you understand what I mean, let me elaborate a little. With technology breakthrough, [...]
MLK’s nonviolence and self-defense
Posted in Grassroots on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I found this speech by MLK about nonviolence. Check out the section of The Question of Self-Defense.
It is very well put. This is the true spirit of nonviolence. You can use this as a yardstick to measure the current politicians’ rhetoric about the Iraq war and see if they really can claim a [...]
News of China
Posted in Chinese, Cross Culture Communication on July 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
People talked about polluted environment and so on in China. I didn’t want to response because if I responded people just thought it affirmed their assumption that I would defend my country. Besides, they are just bored. It is not like they really care about this issue. If they have sense, they will come [...]
The elephant of self
Posted in Chan/Zen, Grassroots on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In an IDP discussion, someone brought up the anger caused by disagreeing with other people. As a response, I mentioned that whenever anyone makes a statement, he makes the statement because he experienced something and thus there must be some truth in his statement. So it is important to find that experience of truth and [...]
The reference to terrorism in the Dark Knight
Posted in Random Thoughts on July 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Watched Dark Knight the other night. I am not a big fan of Batman. I think if you like this kind of movie, Dark Knight should be a very good one for you. I just noticed the strong reference to terrorism and fighting against terrorism in the movie including reference to domestic spying program of [...]
A Puerto Rican fighting the whole west
Posted in Foreign Experience on July 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Overhead a conversation of a dinner table besides me. The guy is from Puerto Rico. He is talking about Puerto Rican here don’t want to learn English and don’t want to learn all the things they don’t know here. They just stay with other Puerto Ricans. He, however, wanted to learn of English and things [...]
