Want more of something? Declare a war on it...

Terror attacks worldwide more than tripled last year, with much of the increase traced to incidents in Iraq, according to government figures released Tuesday by a senior House Democrat.

Based on a briefing federal officials gave congressional aides, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said there were about 650 significant terror attacks last year. He said that was more than three times the record 175 tallied by the government in 2003.

Prescience

Karma is the movement of the Mind

-Geshe Michael Roach

You Can Be a Jedi Knight for $100,000

Sometimes the most lucid poetry is overhead from random conversations

Our New Ambassador to the UN?

The now famous film clip of bush's nominee for ambassador to the UN...

Hey Austinites

Wednesday, April 13, 7 - 9 pm
Religion, Politics, and Moral Values: Framing the Issues
A Panel Discussion moderated by Betty Sue Flowers, Director, LBJ Presidential Library with: Rev. Dr. James Forbes, Senior Leader, Riverside Church, New York, author of Healing the Spirit of America & co-chair of A Partnership of Faith; Rabbi David Saperstein, Religious Action Center of Reformed Judaism & Chair, U. S, Commission on International Religious Freedom; Prof. Mark Silk, Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, and author of Unsecular Media: Making News of Religion in America. At LBJ Presidential Library Auditorium, 26th & Red River.

People should have picnics more often

Truthfully, the chaos that we manage to parse out into significant chunks of meaning is alive and profoundly indifferent to our existence... or at least mine... I have really no way of knowing or caring how the universe regards your own nervous system and what business would I have doing that in the first place? I'm asking...