atoms into suns

My brain just produced this in the course of everyday conversation:

Incidentally, I was feeling a little rusty on my understanding of "laissez-faire", so I looked up the Wikipedia entry. There was a link to "wu wei", so I skimmed that too. Now I have this little sing-songy bounce in my head about wu wei and wei wu wei. Sort of like wax-on, wax-off meets Wu-Tang Clan. It's a Daoist thing, and somehow it all seems to fit together.

Sculpture by Mike Combs of Mike's Metal-ing. Picture taken with permission.

You know, I listen to NPR for a number of reasons, the biggest ones being that I'm disgusted with most radio, and I like being informed, by the most comprehensive and balanced source I can find. (Not that they're perfect, but they're the best I've found.) The commentators and even people who call in are generally open-minded and informed, too, I think.

So it was pretty shocking to listen the other day and hear numerous people call in wondering why Muslims don't denounce terror attacks like the one in London, why Islam seems to breed hate, and the like.

Umm Yasmin had a good roundup of denunciations of the terror attacks by Muslim sources. Go check it out, if for no other reason than that hopefully you can inform others. Also, veiled4allah always does a good job of rounding up the latest news as it relates to Muslims and Islam.

A while back, I asked Daniela some interview questions. Her answer to Question 3 is up now.

I'll update the original post, too, but since it's fallen off the main page I'm mentioning it here as well.