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December 2016

December 06, 2016

Cosmopolitanism Through Karate

This was my meditation lecture to my karate students last week. I hope that it...

December 01, 2016

Random Wednesday: Fake Fake News, Punk On Fire, Buddhists For Trump

"Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him." -- Ernest Hemingway

November 2016

November 29, 2016

Ethnic Pride Does Not Justify White Nationalism

The ethnic identities that our families pass along to us are part of our lived...

November 25, 2016

Why Fascism Is Bad

The allure of fascism is that you, friend, can be part of that glorious struggle!...

November 24, 2016

Random Wednesday: Thanksgiving Reruns, An Old Revelation, Self-Defense and Self-Care

And then it hit me, the great truth I was there to learn, with all...

November 23, 2016

Was This The Best We Could Hope For?

As horrible as a Trump administration is likely to be, perhaps it is the best...

November 17, 2016

Random Wednesday: Universal Income, The Alt-Right, Red Scare

Time for another Random Wednesday here on The Zen Pagan -- this week's dose of...

November 17, 2016

Luke Cage and the Hero’s Journey

And when I watched Cage what I found was more than a tale of a...

November 10, 2016

Election 2016 and the Xenophobic State of the Nation

And you cannot connect with another human being if you start with the belief that...

November 10, 2016

Random Wednesday: No Change of Heart, Hope You Voted, Planet Without Laughter

If you didn't cast your ballot because you didn't want to vote for any of...

November 10, 2016

The Power — Or Lack Thereof — Of Prayer

Every time that someone said "We're praying for her", the subtext of that was "I...

November 03, 2016

Won’t Get Fooled Again: Magic, Imagination, and Political-Artistic Liberation

Every bit of progress begins with an act of Imagination. Before slaves can fight for...

November 02, 2016

Random Wednesday: My Mom, Luke Cage, Pit Bulls, and Cheap Bourbon

This is, by some reckoning, the "Pagan New Year", and new years are a good...

October 2016

October 31, 2016

Your Politics Are Awful. Now What?

Now, as it happens, I have had some practice in dealing with people with deplorable...

October 25, 2016

Samhain in the Hospital: My Mother Is Not Dead

And it's occurred to me that the hospital is a liminal space: between life and...

October 20, 2016

On Declining to Pee In A Cup

My younger friends may be surprised to learn this, but it was not that long...

October 17, 2016

One Cup of Coffee

But now I could lose it right here in the cafeteria over this empty coffeepot....

October 09, 2016

The Burners and The Pagans

Do we perhaps see some parallel evolution here with Pagan festivals? Could a Pagan event...

September 2016

September 30, 2016

More Alive Than Words

But I looked out the window. Across the parking lot, across the road, a small...

September 26, 2016

In Praise of Miss Sue

At one point she told me that she couldn't imagine ever having a job where...

September 08, 2016

What Do You Mean, “Zen”? (or, Dharma Burger Toilets)

The term is often misused in amusing or bemusing ways in marketing in the West,...

September 08, 2016

Star Trek: Pagans in Space

Trek gave viewers the elfin-eared Vulcan Mr. Spock, who projected a logical detachment from destructive...

September 03, 2016

Does “The Star-Spangled Banner” Celebrate Killing Slaves? Part III

While Key was a slave-owner, he seems to have believed that slaves were due some...

September 03, 2016

Does “The Star-Spangled Banner” Celebrate Killing Slaves? Part II

On the seas, however, matters were different. It had been, after all, British treatment of...

September 03, 2016

Does “The Star-Spangled Banner” Celebrate Killing Slaves? Part I

As historian John McMaster put it, "Hardly was the Constitution a year old when England...

August 2016

August 26, 2016

Flirting Without Being A Creep

But that makes it extra disappointing when men new to this culture, inebriated by this...

August 13, 2016

Paradoxes in the Path

So there are some logical reasons why you might get contradictory instructions. But there are...

August 04, 2016

The Troublesome Death of Korryn Gaines

The police first arrived around 9:20 am; the shooting took place around 3 pm. So...

August 02, 2016

Ellicott City: Climate Change, Land Development, and Angry Land Wights

But on Saturday, with no warning or prelude the Tiber rose 12 or 15 feet,...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Lammas Reflections

It is a bit of an orphan holiday. Yule, of course, has a big celebration...

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