Shorter Microsoft: No poor kid needs more than 80GB of storage!

An excellent time capsule of the Pagan/occult community from (nearly) 25 years ago. Now if only they would release it on DVD so I can replace my bit-torrented copy.

Rather than get into the subject of defending or decrying those who believe in the reality of magical powers, what I'd like to know is who Pandit Surinder Sharma is in the context of Indian society. "Famous Indian tantrick" can mean a lot of things. Is he the Indian equivalent of Sylvia Brown? Are other, conceivably more sensible, Indian tantricks sitting at home shaking their heads ruefully, knowing they'll have to put up with uppity atheists inviting them to put death curses on them?

What happened to the Roman Empire? The Gauls? Egypt? The Taoists? The indigenous religions of the Americas, China, and Africa? This "map" has so many inaccuracies and omissions its hard to know where to start.

"By learning to work together with "progressive" evangelicals, secular progressives will stand a better chance of achieving their goals and also learn an enormous amount from these remarkable people and their organizations that will help secular progressives strengthen their own movement."

I am neither hostile to, or ignorant of the evangelical movement(s), but "learning to work together" isn't so simple as recognizing we have some common ground. There are quite a few serious issues that separate "progressive" evangelicals and secular "progressives". Things like equal rights for LGBT folks, safe and legal access to abortion services, questionably ethical "missional" activities, an undercurrent of adversity towards the "Godless" culture of America that can be every bit as "hostile" as the most rabid atheist, and an often ingrained notion of themselves as an embattled minority that needs to push for "equal rights".

I say this as a religious minority who is in active dialog with "progressive" evangelical Christians. I know they aren't the "enemy", but I also know that any political alliance will be a limited affair, and that such alliances can often come with expectations towards future dealings that we may not be comfortable with.

"Dory says the idea for the crickets came to him as he watched his lower eastside neighborhood change, becoming too expensive for the artists who lived there. The concrete crickets, he says, are his way of keeping his voice in the neighborhood."

I wonder who had to leave that lower eastside neighborhood so the artists could move in? What about their voice? I'm all for street art, but artists who make run-down neighborhoods "hip" are (willing or not) agents of the very gentrification they claim to despise.