This section was last updated on July 1, 2010.

The mind is in many ways like an automatic machine; unless we bring its thinking processes to a halt, it will go on forever doing what it's accustomed to do: evaluate, contemplate, want, imagine, judge, opine, wish, analyze, criticize, justify, aggress, explain, compare, inquire, fantasize, accept, reject, and all those other activities that form its raison d’être. Since often that's inevitably the case, might as well cast some of those thoughts on digital paper.

The Amazing Thing. Nanning, China, July 1, 2010. Can there be anything more intellectually blinding than the effects of a perverted nationalistic indoctrination? Maybe not.

And All that Pain Just to End Up Longing to Become Capitalists? Nanning, China, April 11, 2010. The students at the University don’t talk to me about politics or ideology. They talk to me about their dreams of eventually living lives with as much comfort as possible. They talk to me in terms quite similar to those in which any western University student would talk to me.

Sino-Musicality. Nanning, China, March 9, 2010. Music is often considered the most significant expression of any culture; Chinese Music certainly attests to that. A couple of days ago I managed to record some local Chinese flute players on my recording machine at home.

A Passing Illusion. Hanoi, Vietnam, February 19, 2010. A nanofraction of a nanosecond. Do you think that would be a fair way to describe the length of our lifetimes if we were to compare them to Eternity? Hmmm... not even that.

Hey Hill, Maybe I Miss You Already. Hanoi, Vietnam, February 8, 2010. The fundamental things apply as time goes by. One year after his election, Barack’s campaign promises have turned into a… a what? A squirm? A whimper? Maybe I'm beginning to miss Hill.

The Myth of India. Hanoi, Vietnam, January 11, 2010. Everything we need to know about the four branches of Yoga is now available to everyone in the form of books, DVDs, writings on the Internet, etc. So, why would any spiritual seeker want to go to India at all?

Lunacy Reigns. Loutraki, Greece, January 6, 2010. Humanity is presently suffering from an increasingly severe case of Extremist Islamitis, a disease whose virus was generated within Islam and that now has spread to the rest of the world. Is there an antidote for it?

Hey Lady ! Any Man Near You is Your Father. Loutraki, Greece, January 3, 2010. An episode I lived last night left me thinking whether this is Greece in the times of Zorba, or Greece in the 21st Century. But maybe it's a combination of the two.

I Haven't Gone Anywhere. Loutraki, Greece, December 30, 2009. I've traveled close to 34,000 miles this year (54,400 Kms) and I've been to some 7 or 8 countries too. What does it mean?

Body Privacy or Flight Security? Loutraki, Greece. December 29, 2009. Have Airport authorities around the world decided that body privacy is preferable to flight security?

Tolerance at Gunpoint? Loutraki, Greece. December 2, 2009. Are western countries willing to throw away the achievements of centuries of painful social struggle in the name of "religious tolerance”?

Too Good to Be Good? Loutraki, Greece. November 27, 2009. The term "Carrots and Sticks" is a very well-known term in circles interested in US foreign policy. Is Barak Obama really aware of what it means?

Obama, the New Tutankhamen of the World. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. June 4th, 2009

To Dissent or not to Dissent, is that the Question? Niihama, Japan. April 26, 2009

The Continuing Israeli-Palestinian Family Feud. Sliema, Malta. January 8th, 2009

Who's Responsible for the American Car Industry's fall? Sliema, Malta. Dec, 12, 2008.

Why Don't You Want my Money? Sliema, Malta. November 14, 2008

Proud to Be an American. Sliema, Malta. November 7, 2008

The Invisible Hand finally reveals itself and speaks to the dogmatic, unbridled and irresponsible US-style Market Economy of the G.W. Bush years. Sliema, Malta. Sept. 22nd, 2008.