29\u00a0 87%\u00a0 26%\u00a0 5mph NNW\u00a0 bar29.89 rises windchill25\u00a0 Imbolc<\/p>\n
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Saw Scarlet Johanssen talking to a group of Minnesota students tonight.\u00a0 She’s pushing Barrack.\u00a0 The political firestorm that will sweep the nation tomorrow will have a brushfire here in the Minnesota caucuses.\u00a0 It remains to be seen whether a strong youth turnout for primaries and caucuses will\u00a0 translate into votes in November, but I find the youth surge a hopeful phenomenon.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 It’s got my vote.<\/p>\n
The snow petered out, a dusting only after the vigor of the mid-morning.\u00a0 Things did get freshened up.<\/p>\n
Watched an anime on the Science Fiction Channel.\u00a0 Saw why Miyazaki is considered an anime god.\u00a0 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 It is also the time of the Qin unification and Qin Shi Huang Di fascinates me.\u00a0 After the Qin the Han dynasty began and lasted for four hundred years or so, one of the first golden ages of China.\u00a0 Later, the Tang, Song, and Ming dynasties would, each in their own time and in their own way, count as golden ages, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
29\u00a0 87%\u00a0 26%\u00a0 5mph NNW\u00a0 bar29.89 rises windchill25\u00a0 Imbolc \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Crescent of the Winter Moon Saw Scarlet Johanssen talking to a group of Minnesota students tonight.\u00a0 She’s pushing Barrack.\u00a0 The political firestorm that will sweep the nation tomorrow will have a brushfire here in the Minnesota caucuses.\u00a0 It remains to be seen whether a … Continue reading Ten Thousand Schools<\/span>