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While we're all involved with the Democratic convention with Obama and McCain's pick later today, please make sure and keep the Dalai Lama in your thoughts and prayers.

He was hospitalized, yesterday, and while there's no indication that it's serious, his hospitalization was unscheduled. He had been suffering from exhaustion, and was admitted to hospital for abdominal pain.

I'm not a Buddhist, but I have read some books by the Dalai Lama (Tibet's exiled temporal and spiritual leader), and he makes some good points. He is a very wise and compassionate man, and all of us,...

I know many of you will be watching the Olympics, and I'm not going to try to talk you out of it.

If China's support of genocide in Darfur and occupation of Tibet isn't enough for you, here's another reason to boycott China.

In a post earlier this week I mentioned the strange case of Karma, Vodka, and Earthquakes.
The good news is Ms. Stone finally sobered up. Good for her.
 Hollywood star Sharon Stone has apologised for suggesting China’s earthquake was bad “karma” for its handling of Tibet, but Christian Dior on Thursday dropped her from its local ads [...]

That’s what Tim Chavez seems to be saying and he doesn’t appear to be joking:

From a guest editorial:

Following the recent violence in Tibet and the repressive Chinese reaction, Americans are concerned once again about human rights in China. They ask, “What can the United States do to improve the human rights situation in China?”

“A friend, as it were, is a second self.”
— Cicero

After attending the championship game of the NCAA Final Four and being devastated by the result, I hosted some old friends in Florida this week.

While most folks are focusing attention on China’s hosting of the Olympics over the recent dust-up in Tibet, the Williamson County Democrats are focusing on another China link by hosting Sudanese refugee

The chaos and confusion amid the Olympic Torch run in San Fran yesterday made trying to locate the troubled symbols of the Olympics like playing a game of Where's Waldo?