Three From Stephen Hand

"As the growing world-wide economic crisis deepens, military forces from Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom are preparing to meet angry citizens on the street," begins Daniel Taylor — Western Military Forces Turning Inward in Anticipation of Domestic Unrest.

Mr. Hand notes that "the herd of independent thinkers in the dominant western culture believes" that freedom "simply being shackled to one's own passions and desires and impulses" — Hey, Girl, Sleeping With That Guy---Why Should He Even Think of Marrying You? You're Very Inexpensive!

"In Buddhism and its variants, whether you are sitting lotus in the park reading Hans Kung amid falling blossoms on a beautiful Spring day, or being raped, slashed and strangled in a back alley---or shot in the back by a fan as Lennon was---it is all the same at the end of the day," writes Mr. Hand — Buddhism and Christianity.