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Greetings and thanks to all who read, write and comment on this blog.  Our short existence in 2007 has been funtastic – witnessing the birth of the blog and forming a community of like-minded souls. I’m sure 2008 will be amazing as well.    I especially want to thank the contributors who have committed to writing regular original series (just like HBO!).   My latest project has been to put together a Series page (now linked under DharmaDocs) where everyone can have easy access to the content and catch up on their favorites.  

The page is reproduced below….  

Docudharma has a wealth of talented writers – some of whom contribute a regular series on a particular topic – news, art, philosophy, fiction, etc.

Click the Titles to go to the RSS Feed.

Click the Author to go to their page.

ALL TIMES EASTERN US (GMT -5:00)

Series	Author/Description	Time (Eastern US)
	News. Four at Four – Current events and hot topics uniquely presented by Magnifico the founder of Overnight News Digest.	M-F 4 PM
	Teaching, Learning. Robyn serves up an educational feast at Café Discovery.  Pull up a chair.	Sun 10 AM
	News. Docudharma Times – mishima starts your day with the morning headlines and the amazing ticker.	Daily 7:30 AM
	Teaching, Law.  Friday Constitutional  – Something The Dog Said walks us through each Article and Section of the Consititution.  Knowing the relevance and intent of this document is essential for every political blogger and citizen of the United States.	Friday
	Salon.   nightprowlkitty sets the beat, Friday Night at 8, with lyrical prose and Hepcat style. BYO cocktails.	Fri 8 PM
	Life. Friday Philosophy: Robyn‘s personal and profound ponderings.	Fri 6 PM
	SciFi/CyberPulp. Iglesia  by buhdydharma – a cliffhanger serial with a metaphysical twist.  Stay tuned for what happens next…	Tue & Sat midnight
	in Other news. pico‘s weekly roundup of GLBT news	Wed noon on hiatus
	Music.  Late Night Karaoke  – mishima cues up the tunes so everyone can sing along.	nightly 3 AM
	Economy, Business. Manufacturing Monday – Johnny Venom digests the weekly business news, bringing you informative and detailed analysis of industry, labor, economics, world trade and more.	Monday
	Art & Poetry. Muse in the Morning – Robyn celebrates the Muses and encourages everyone to contribute their talent.	M-F 6 AM
	Open Thread. Pony Party hosted by Turing Test and the stable crew.  For fun and amusement… must be this high to ride!	Daily
	Books. Profiles in Literature – pico‘s fascinating lessons about the history, lives, and works of authors.	Tue 6 PM on hiatus
	News. Random Japan – Special and unusual news items from Japan.  Brought to you by mishima.	Fri midnight
	News/Commentary. ek hornbeck ace reporter for The Stars Hollow Gazette.	Sun, M, W, Th midnight
	Trippin Tuesday – All things psychedelic.  To wake up your mind… get On The Bus.	Tue 10 PM (highly irregular)
	Fiction. Weapon of Young Gods – authors Roy Reed, dhaynes and others. A wild stab at expression born of boredom, nostalgia, inertia, and spasmodic bursts of heretofore-unknown discipline and willpower.	Random
	News. Weekend News Digest with ek hornbeck  – Top Stories in Technicolor.  News from the World, U.S, Business, Politics, Science and more.	Sat & Sun 4 PM
	Books. What are you reading? – plf515’s popular series cross-posted at Daily Kos.	discontinued
	Spontaneous expression.  Writing in the Raw – pfiore8 (with occasional guest hosts) lets it all hang out in this creative workshop.	discontinued

OTB (2007)

Merry Christmas Dharmaniacs!

More pics below…   (w/ apology to dial-up connections)

Y’amal (flickr Creative Commons)

A roundup of tasty items that caught my eye the past few days.  

• Global Orgasm Day h/t Unqualified Offerings

  The Second Annual Global Orgasm for Peace was yesterday, December 22, at 06:08 Universal Time (GMT).   Did you feel the earth move?  

  The world is full of men with axes to grind and weapons to fire in displays of their superiority over others. It is time to spare the planet from Alpha Male concepts of ‘progress’, ‘growth’ and Manifest Destiny, which are endangering all of us. True partnership between the Masculine and Feminine that is within all women and men may enable our species to survive in relative harmony. The Global Orgasm for Peace is one attempt to begin that process.

  
  
  







• from Daily Kos, updated Gilbert & Sullivan – I am the Very Model of a Bush Attorney General by Briseadh na Faire.  Bloody brilliant.  First verse below, go sing the rest.  

  I am the very model of a Bush attorney general
  
  I prosecute all Democrats with charges quite ephemeral
  
  I know the things I say are legal metaphorical
  
  With logic that defies Supreme Court rulings quite historical.









• Tbogg, now at Firedoglake, has fun with Romney’s idiotic statements in I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness…but only in a figurative sense

  Mitt explains the MLK march hallucination. Dude, we told you to stay away from the brown LSD…not LDS.
  

  “The reference of seeing my father lead in civil rights,” he said, “and seeing my father march with Martin Luther King is in the sense of this figurative awareness of and recognition of his leadership.”

  “I’ve tried to be as accurate as I can be,” he continued, smiling firmly. “If you look at the literature or look at the dictionary, the term ‘saw’ includes being aware of — in the sense I’ve described.”

  The questioning did not relent. “I’m an English literature major,” he insisted at one point. “When we say I saw the Patriots win the World Series, it doesn’t necessarily mean you were there.” (He meant the Super Bowl, of course.)
  
  (via msnbc)

  
  
  btw, Firedoglake got a radical makeover a couple weeks ago. I hadn’t been there in a while so I was kind of surprised.   Not sure I like it yet but the banner is nice.   emptywheel is part of the blog too.  









• via Neatorama, The Galactically Hot Women of Star Trek.  Click the pic for more space chicks.  Some of the comments on flickr are pretty funny.  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
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For a few months we have been a member of BlogAds – one of over 1500 participating blogs.  BlogAds has subdivided the blogs into “hives” to allow advertisers to more easily target particular audiences. You need to get permission from the hive owner to join.  Docudharma was recently accepted in the Liberal Blog Ads Network (LBAN) hive. This is the same network that Daily Kos and a lot of the big name political bloggers belong to (see below). There are currently 156 members, so there are a lot of lesser known blogs on it too… like us.   Being in the LBAN helps distinguish us amongst the umpteen other categories, such as Parenting, Sports, Science, Religion, Gay, Gossip, Music and Other blogs.

One of the criteria to join LBAN is that you have to take part in the Blog Reader Survey.   This will help us to be more successful at drawing advertisers based on our demographics, so please do your dharmic duty and….  

Take the Blog Reader Survey

11/16/07 (Berkeley, CA) – The third Friday of every month I have been attending a war protest on the streets of Berkeley, CA. The majority of the protesters are members of the Grey Panthers and/or are from Strawberry Creek Lodge,  a nearby retirement community.  The rest are random people who heard about this through word of mouth, IraqMoratorium.org or some other organization.  For two hours we stand on four corners of a busy street.  All the cars honk when they drive by and when they are stopped at the light some people hand out slips of paper with the date and time of the next event. Pedestrians are also given flyers about taking action to end the war.

The most recent IM Day, I brought my video camera and took some footage. First you will hear a song and then there are some interview clips speaking out against the war.  Listen to the voices of our elders. These are the real deal DFHs, many protested Vietnam and wars before that.  I’m so glad they agreed to be on camera. You may catch a glimpse of Docudharma’s own dharmasyd – who I met after the first IM Day.   She is one of the organizers of this monthly action.    

Disclaimer:  This is the first time I have ever edited a video and put it on YouTube.  I was in a hurry to put it together so the quality may suck but the spirit and sincerity of The People still shines through (I hope).   If I can figure out the sound editing I will do another version with all the extra footage I have.  

Here are some photos from the first IM Day (9/21/07).