"I managed to get my head up and scream 'croc' and then this giant dragged me under again."

"I got my head above water again and this time I was swearing and saying get this thing off me. I was just screaming for help. I couldn...

Sri Lanka prosecutes 3 French tourists for photographs of themselves pretending to kiss Buddha statues.

Somehow in this age of digital photography they were using a photo lab and they didn't wait until they got home to process the photos. T...

45% of the monks in Thailand are obese.

They're eating what they collect from the public, but the alms-givers are giving them fattening things, apparently.

Drawn into the artistic vortex.

I showed you the vortex in the museum, where the unsuspecting black-booted woman strode by. And Chip Ahoy said "Stupid square post mod...

"Mysterious Buddhist Retreat in the Desert Ends in a Grisly Death."

NYT reports on a couple who were expelled had been "had been expelled from a nearby Buddhist retreat in which dozens of adherents, liv...

"This grasping at straws was just the capstone to what even liberal observers admitted was a week of self-immolation..."

I'm annoyed that I can't get into that article — about the SG's argument in the Obamacare case — because I don't have a sub...

"Can you be a Catholic and practice Buddhism at the same time?"

So-called "religious pluralism": [Barbara] Johnson’s depiction of her faith mirrors that even of some clergy, including famed Trap...

Telling the old "Can you make me one with everything?" joke to the Dalai Lama.

That extreme awkwardness defines the expression "losing something in the translation."

"I was dabbling in witchcraft, I've dabbled in Buddhism."

"I would have become a Hare Krishna but I didn't want to become a vegetarian and that is honestly the reason why because I'm It...

"[C]ovetousness, schadenfreude, anxiety, dread, and on and on."

"It’s the frequent fruitlessness of such feelings that the Buddha is said to have pondered after he unplugged from the social grid of h...

"We have the nirvana that people are looking for."

Says Rick Stengel, the managing editor of Time Magazine. Eh... I think I'll look for the nirvana that you can't look for. That seems...

It's easy retaining your status as the oldest man in Tokyo...

... when you're already dead. [W]hen officials went to congratulate Sogen Kato on his 111th birthday....  discovered a mummified body, b...

"Our minds are quite scattered with planning and remembering and tracking and we don't live much in the present."

"We can be so lost in our minds that we don't see the sunset over the Pacific, we don't see the eyes of our children when we co...

Brit Hume evangelizes Tiger Woods.

Key passage: The extent to which he can recover seems to me depends on his faith. He is said to be a Buddhist. I don't think that faith ...

Raisins, orgasms... what's the difference?

Here 's another big NYT Magazine article for women that I didn't want to read, but I'm reading now to use in a Bloggingheads epi...

"The sort of movie that plays best when you stumble across it on cable."

I'm clicking through the Rotten Tomatoes reviews of "Leonard Cohen -- I'm Your Man," and this "Short Takes" one ...

The new Ken doll.

He's into Buddhism , we're told. Shouldn't Buddhists be freaking out about the use of their religion as a fashion accessory? UP...

Sex and religion: the Christian gender gap.

In recent years feminists have criticized the Christian church for what they consider its patriarchy and sexism, but far more women than men...