Everyone wants in on the ascot now—Michael Johns and David Beckham, no less. Look guys, you’re four months late. I was sporting the ascot this Christmas. You’re late to the party.

Doing whatever Chutney does. Now at the J Crew nearest you.

No matter how cute and goofy the Dalai Lama is, the Tibet his predecessors ran was a theocratic feudal society. I’m not certain that the Daiai Lama isn’t a democrat, but I don’t remember him ever advocating for a Tibetan democracy. Tibetan Buddhism certainly isn’t democratic. (If there is anything out there connecting the Tibetan protesters to pro-democracy sentiments—and not just anti-China—please correct me.)

But you have to admit that stopping the Olympic torch is way cooler than a “Free Tibet” bumper sticker.

(Hat tip to Light and Life.)

The new UUA ads are great and all, but I think we might get a lot more done by taking this approach instead.

Anything but Jesus—that could work for us, right?

Karen Armstrong says pretty much the same, but here it is from a guy who went to Harvard to study fundamentalism.

Brett Grainger sees fundamentalism as an entirely modern phenomenon, one that was born as a reaction against the modern world, but that has also been shaped by it. “Contrary to conventional wisdom, fundamentalists are not interested in returning to a pre-modern age,” he writes. “They are among the most adept pupils of modernity, copying and recasting its designs for their own purposes.”

(Hat tip to one of my fundy spies.)

BBC said it was a “robot space truck,” and I can’t imagine what else that could mean.

Robot space truck, more than meets the eye.

Beware the unbelievers! They are among us!