Bush – 8 years in 8 minutes

Keith Olberman in blistering form:

It’s incredible to see it all condensed, and slightly sickening to see the extent of the abuse of power.

Enlightenment from spilling coffee

“The untrained person may believe that their happiness comes from material circumstances. When my new carpet is fitted and I am sitting in my living room with a cup of tasty coffee in my hands, then I will feel happy, one might think. This is the sort of stuff that the advertising industry constantly indoctrinates us with. It too is a myth and a method, but it is a completely different one from that offered by Buddhism. I sit with my cup of coffee and the cat jumps up. The coffee goes flying and comes to rest in a remarkable pattern straight across the middle of the white section of the new carpet. That is the moment of enlightenment.”

David Brazier, The New Buddhism, Robinson, London, 2001, p. 238.