Adgita Diaries

May 2005



Why Did the Chicken-----

Monday, 30 May 2005 7:31 P GMT-04
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because it wandered on to a road and got a ticket to ride. But, said chicken ran a fowl of the law and was issued a jay walking citation by Kern County Sheriff's Deputy J. Nicholson. The incident occured on a r

MEMORIAL DAY

Monday, 30 May 2005 1:10 A GMT-04
ABC's Nightline, which ignited a brief political battle last year with its decision to read the names of Americans killed in Iraq, will do so again this year. Ted Koppel's news program will pay tribute to the more than 900 U.S. servicemen and women w

Gays Begone: Hate for Jesus

Sunday, 29 May 2005 7:59 P GMT-04
How did it come to pass that Christianity would become synonymous with hate, war, wealth, and death? How did it come to pass that the words of Christian love, hope, justice, and peace have become foul in the violent pious sermons of radical authorita

Chillum Dreams Shiva Kalpa

Friday, 27 May 2005 7:59 P GMT-04
This story is part IV of a series after 'Antaiji--Great Peace' 'Facing the Wall' and 'Groovy in The Golden Days'Growing older is a bit like that illustration of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Sitting comfortably in a moving train, we watch at vario

Howling in The Waste Land

Thursday, 26 May 2005 2:22 A GMT-04
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving naked--" "who bared their brains to Heaven under the EL and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated," "who passed through universities with radient co

Darth Dubya and a Lesser god

Tuesday, 24 May 2005 3:08 P GMT-04
The new Star Wars movie is spectacular. So much so, that the usual Lucas critics are harping about the 'stilted' dialogue and lack of profound discourse. These are usually the folks who can't or don't make movies, art or for that matter, much of anyt

ANTAIJI --Great Peace

Saturday, 21 May 2005 7:59 P GMT-04
                                              Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, founder of the San Francisco Zen Center, was a remarkable man by any measure. Short in stature, he had a nuclear fire of light within tha

A Blessing in Cuba

Friday, 20 May 2005 7:59 P GMT-04
                                                     Congratulations Dayami! Good news for all who know and love you.                                        

Howl

Friday, 20 May 2005 7:59 P GMT-04
The Great 'King of Zembla's' Simbaud has done it again with a literally stunning new essay by Joe Bageant on the state of American affairs. Please enjoy the excerpts below by Simbaud and Bageant. If, after reading the full article at 'King of Zembla'

The Gall of the Man

Thursday, 19 May 2005 7:59 P GMT-04
An Open Letter to Democrats: Listen to Galloway and Learn Something By STAN GOFF Catch the full banana at http://www.counterpunch.org Counter Punch is an incredible resource. Check it out, even subscribe to it's news magazine. We have no connection w

Facing The Wall

Tuesday, 17 May 2005 7:59 P GMT-04
The Summer of Love in 1967 lasted about ten hours. It was an extraordinary event in history, quite unlike any before or since. Now it is such ancient history that it has a ring like 'The Roaring Twenties,' World War One,' or 'The Edwardian Age.' It's

Cath Licks & Doing the Levada

Saturday, 14 May 2005 7:59 P GMT-04
For many of us the new Ratzinger, William Levada Arch Bishop of San Francisco, is so yesterday's fascist. Now that fascists are becoming saints, heck let's get on board the wafer train. Too late--all the seats are taken. Catholic goings-on really do

Elephant Gag & Percolat'in Pervs

Thursday, 12 May 2005 7:59 P GMT-04
                                                           Not since the days Sen. What's-is-Name got caught dancing naked in a D.C. fountain with an exotic dancer- not his wife, has our augus

Groovy in the Olden Days

Thursday, 12 May 2005 6:01 P GMT-04
                                                           "Baaaaack in time".  Does anybody remember Judy Tanuda? She was one of the funniest women to ever come out of Chicago, and

Rob'in The Hood

Wednesday, 11 May 2005 12:04 A GMT-04
"The final insult: Bush as Robin Hood" (Paul Krugman, a columnist for the New York Times. http://web.mit.edu/krugman and www.wws.princeton.edu/~pkrugman ) "Hell hath no fury like a scammer foiled.--And so it is with those who would pri

Chotto Matte & Shigatta Ga Nai

Monday, 9 May 2005 7:59 P GMT-04
Ann Arbor-- so long ago, so long ago. We all know that feeling when some potent memory comes again out of the mist so fresh, clear, and real that it seems 'now' again. I find myself saying "chotto matte" (wait) in a language I've unknown ov

The Cherry Stand

Sunday, 8 May 2005 4:12 P GMT-04
Highway 101 leaves San Francisco across the beautiful Golden Gate Bridge and heads north. Not too many years ago, the 'highway' ended at about Petaluma, the 'Chicken Captital of the Universe.' It's not that way now. Petaluma is currently a sprawling

Screaming in the Night

Saturday, 7 May 2005 2:58 P GMT-04
There are times, like now, when we just want to roar- a cyclone wind into the night--about insanity and injustice. This time it was over an article by Matt Sedensky, titled "Decapitated girl's parents arrested." The story comes out of Kansa

Pink Elephants

Saturday, 7 May 2005 2:54 P GMT-04
Hot Flashes Out of Spokane: (by Nicholas Geranios of the Associated Press)Spokane Republican Mayor James West- "a conservative with an abrasive style and a fierce temper, rose to become majority leader of the state senate during a two-decade leg

Cannibal Mothers

Thursday, 5 May 2005 3:58 P GMT-04
Some women are unforgetable, some indelible, some avatars of pure poison. When they become mothers, the swath of their damage lasts for generations. Years ago, I met one such vortex and the stain of her presence has lasted to this day-- etched by aci

Mother's Day

Wednesday, 4 May 2005 7:59 P GMT-04
                                                         My mother sits before a large window a good part of the day staring out at the Pacific Ocean. Below her, red tiled roofs and lush gardens

The Seventh Day Bad Dentist

Tuesday, 3 May 2005 7:59 P GMT-04
There are things that go 'bump' in the night--scary things that creep with shadow and stealth. And just as we fear the worst--out pops the family cat in the dark, before the light turns on, chasing a small mouse that has brushed our foot in its fligh

Oh Shut Up Part II

Tuesday, 3 May 2005 12:40 A GMT-04
It may seem mean spirited, but the recent Dubya and Laura show at the White House Correspondent's Association dinner on Saturday, seemed tired beyond even Lawrence Welk reruns on Republican cable. Yet, the yuk yuk got front page news and continues to

Burning Down The House

Monday, 2 May 2005 7:59 P GMT-04
                                                      We can't seem to shed a feeling of angst about what 'feels' like a slide in cultural stability in America. Events great and small add up to what

Salad Days: Add Oil & Vinegar

Sunday, 1 May 2005 3:15 A GMT-04
                                                                 "Soon through the dykes of our contentThe crumbling flood will force a rent,And, taller than a