The Chinese have been systematically destroying the environment (considered sacred by the Tibetans) and religion in Tibet for 57 years and bringing in huge numbers of Chinese to destroy the country’s culture. It is estimated that hundreds of Tibetans have been killed in the last week while the Chinese propaganda machine tells its own people that the Tibetans are killing Chinese shopkeepers.

In a move that is beyond cynicism, the Chinese government, based on atheism, has declared that only it may choose the reincarnations of Tibetan lamas including the Panchen lama, a situation where the child chosen as the incarnation by the Tibetan Buddhists has been jailed for years (a young child) and replaced by a Chinese choice.

The quote above is from Zhang Qingli, Secretary of the Communist Party for Tibet.

We must not support Western sponsors of the Summer Olympics in China. Support for these sponsors is support for state-sponsored human rights abuse and terrorism.

This kid is great as was the original done by Ferrell- it has the scary ring of reality to it.

What, me worry?

And a few classic movies posters reconfigured…

When we moved over to WordPress a few months ago we arbitrarily chose a template, thinking we’d quickly move to something better. Today we finally changed, fixing some of the usability issues inherent in the last one. One of the great things about WordPress is the flexibility it offers- tons of plug-ins that make it easy to customize a template design and add functionality.

One thing I get asked is where the name came from. Burner Trouble was the title of an unpublished novel I wrote that imagined a group of people living in a post-warming climate on the fringes of a flooded city.  ‘Burner trouble’ was their slang for what happened as in ‘we had burner trouble and things got hot’.

The book was an exercise in imagining what that life might be like. The reality soon overwhelmed the fictional version as a subject of interest to me- hence this blog.