The Buddha on Religion
If you find yourself in the middle of a rushing river, going down for the third time, and you reach out desperately and find a raft, you better climb on it. And you can climb on that raft, and find your way to dry land. That raft saved your life. Will you put it on [...]
Easter
Plan for today– a little work, a little church and a lot of family time. It’s wet outside, but looks likely to clear up and the trees are blooming, flowers are growing, Spring is finally making herself felt in soggy Southern New England. Easter, Passover, Cambodian Year of the Rabbit– it’s party time.
Holy Saturday
Driving through Olneyville I saw a woman draping purple silk over a large wooden cross she had put up in front of her triple-decker. She had a folding table with flowers on it. I won’t be driving back there to see how she completed her temporary shrine, but what she had started was quite beautiful. [...]
Good Friday
Some time ago a traveling preacher walked from town to town speaking to anyone who would listen about God and scripture and sin and salvation. He was one of many street preachers, but his words found a place in the hearts of the poor and the outcast. Soon crowds gathered wherever he appeared. He renounced [...]
News Containment Effort Fails
I’m not a nuclear expert, and far from unbiased. I can’t silence anyone with tech talk or claim to be objective. I do have a bachelors in science and am fairly good at reading between the lines and noting what is not said. I’ve also worked in various jobs and see the same human dynamics [...]
So Many Opinions, So Little Time
Lots of running around with NPR 1290 on the radio– not so much paying work. I’ve got to do something about that, but I love what I’m doing. The more I learn about navigating the tangled mess of the various insurances– fiendishly complicated codes and requirements invented by bored office workers who wish they were [...]
Bad Nurse
I’m watching ‘Nurse Jackie’ on DVD and enjoying it very much. As fiction. Like any good soap opera, the show is all high drama and lots of quiet moments where characters bare their souls. Not like a real emergency room (and I have worked in one) where it’s more like McDonald’s at rush hour, or [...]
Chernobyl Not Over Yet
This article from Bloomberg.com deals with the financial fallout from the Chernobyl disaster… Chernobyl Leak Forces Ukraine to Seek $1 Billion After 25 Years By James M. Gomez and Daryna Krasnolutska – Apr 17, 2011 5:01 PM ET Ukraine is seeking $1 billion to seal Chernobyl, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, and [...]
Cheap Labor in the Hot Zone
Alternet posts this article from the site WhoWhatWhy.com The author, Russ Baker, cites a 1999 article from the Los Angeles Times exposing the unconscionable use of low-wage workers as a human resource to do the dirty and dangerous maintenance work that keeps nuclear power cheap. Kunio Murai was a struggling farmer from the wrong side [...]
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