There is a group of Buddhist monks in Malaysia with a bit of an ant problem. So far they haven’t been able to get rid of the painful little buggers. The problem is made more complex by the fact that they can’t kill the ants… but there might be a way around that:
They cannot encourage anyone to harm the ants, but the chief monk says that if someone turns up unbidden and deals with them without the monks’ involvement then that is the will of the universe.
Listening to: All The Things She Said - Simple Minds
RollingStone puts the idea of Gore for president out there and then looks at the various angles.
Above all, Gore has replaced his image as a boring, cautious technocrat with that of a dynamic, plain-spoken visionary. “We’ve seen the real Al Gore,” says Moulitsas of DailyKos. “Not the prepackaged, consultant-muzzled Al Gore, but the actual, this-is-what-Al-Gore-who-doesn’t-give-a-shit-about-winning-elections looks like.” In national polls, Gore’s favorability numbers now rank above Hillary’s.
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Gore’s biggest challenge, however, may come from within. “He’s kind of a klutzy politician,” says Elaine Kamarck, a Gore confidante. If he has any hope of being president, Gore has to find a way to stay in touch with the looser, more confident side of himself that has emerged in recent years.
Crooks and Liars have got a segment of Sen Chuck Hagel presenting at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee… Talk about cutting through to the point - an almost perfect pitch of passionate and rational. Just awesome.
