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Waning Crescent of the Winter Moon
Saw Scarlet Johanssen talking to a group of Minnesota students tonight. She’s pushing Barrack. The political firestorm that will sweep the nation tomorrow will have a brushfire here in the Minnesota caucuses. It remains to be seen whether a strong youth turnout for primaries and caucuses will translate into votes in November, but I find the youth surge a hopeful phenomenon. Maybe we’re getting back to a situation where the politics of compassion, not compassionate conservatism, and the politics of economic justice, not unjust foreign policy will prevail. It’s got my vote.
The snow petered out, a dusting only after the vigor of the mid-morning. Things did get freshened up.
Watched an anime on the Science Fiction Channel. Saw why Miyazaki is considered an anime god. This stuff is much more slapdash, also has a slasher feel to it without the grace of the samurai or wu shu movies like Crouching Tiger.
I seem to find myself digging deeper and deeper into ancient China, especially the Warring States period when Taoism, Confucianism and Legalism plus many others–the Ten Thousand Schools–emerged. It is also the time of the Qin unification and Qin Shi Huang Di fascinates me. After the Qin the Han dynasty began and lasted for four hundred years or so, one of the first golden ages of China. Later, the Tang, Song, and Ming dynasties would, each in their own time and in their own way, count as golden ages, too.