I had a difficult time processing all of this at the office today, and your writing genuinely helped. May it never come to a hundredth of what some of us have already had to endure! I hope we'll cross paths again sometime.

You probably could define Buddhism as a derivative of Hindu practice honestly, if only because so many core ideas are clearly in conversation with Hindu concepts

Good, but consider: Zenos voiced by Tim Curry.

What's funny is that Vajrapani - who eventually led to those big thundery guys with clubs you see at the entrance to Buddhist temples in Japan - was based on Hercules, pretty much 1:1. I like to think Herc converted and found peace.

I don't know who this guy is but H-TINE HOL IT DINE, if it wasn't so hot and also under the cruel yoke of the Texas GOP I'd probably still be there.

Update: coup not going as planned *CITIZENS TAKE OVER MAIN PLAZA IN BOLIVIA'S LA PAZ: WITNESS *FORMER BOLIVIA GENERAL WHO LED UPRISING HAS LEFT PLAZA: UNITEL

Do what you gotta, man! It's been cool to chat* but it is better to break regularly and often than to succumb to the Madness. * - ok mostly I made smartass replies but that's basically chatting

I mean they were the herrenvolk, Kilgore, the law exists to protect them, not to bind them!

But Times/Siena had so much of the other problem they commented on it. They can't BOTH be right. "I ain't talkin to you! Only NATIONAL POLLS from the FAILING NEW YORK TIMES! **TRUMP!!!**"

The good news is that we know what those swing states are, and I do not think the Biden campaign is going to take anything for granted.