I can’t figure out what the etiquette is when driving around the square.

Here is my guess. There are clearly two lanes. Yet most people do not use them independently. It’s more like one large lane and you should only pass another car that is not moving. This is polite small town driving.

There is however the lunch time exception*: during lunch time there are two lanes. One lane for those who have a limited time for lunch and one for the rest. The most critical aspect to this exception: DO NOT dilly dally in the “lane of limited time”.

*Driving experience in LA and/or New York City helpful during the lunch time exception.

The meditation poll is split 50/50 right now.  It’s like the 2000 election, except there’s no bad side.

We have babysitting for the caucus!

Our designer is nearly finished with the avatars of the ScribeStorm development team. Here’s a sample of them with our new logo. He captured my bad hair day pretty well.

Leftover Turkey: without a doubt my favorite part of Thanksgiving.

This morning I came across the Indian version of Thriller, which I’ve seen before but is always funny. I dug up a couple other Indian favorites of mine. Thriller and Tunak Tunak Tun (the first and second below) are just whacky and good for a laugh. Chaiyya Chaiyya (the third one) is a great song and the entire video is filmed on a moving train (you might also recognize this song from the Spike Lee’s Inside Man).

My closest friend in Fairfield and a meditator, pointed me to this story about David Lynch’s visit to Germany and the chaos around a misunderstanding of the intent of one of his guest speakers.

Some quick backstory for those who have not heard of the Maharishi’s Invincible America Assembly. Practitioners of Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation program began the Invincible America Assembly with the goal of creating world peace by assembling a permanent group of Yogic Flyers. These Yogic Flyers will fly together in large groups in the domes at the Maharishi University of Management.

According to the Invincible America Assembly:

The by-product of establishing this permanent group would be a coherent influence to bless the nation with invincibility. A large, permanent group of Yogic Flyers has been accomplished and the Invincible America Assembly continues today to generate the influence of coherence for the entire country, in addition to generating more profound experiences in the participants everyday.

Last week David Lynch (a practitioner of Transcendental Meditation) was lecturing in Berlin and invited his friend Raja Emanuel Schiffgens to address the audience. Schiffgens speech sets of the crowd:

These videos were uploaded (and shot I think) by nosedef. Who gives a hysterical blog treatment of the whole event, followed by a reply from David Lynch himself. My favorite part of nosedef’s post is his description of the Raja Emanuel Schiffgens as dressed like the McDonald’s Pope.

What I found most interesting about this scenario was my affirmation in my admiration for the German people. They absolutely do not accept bullshit, and question the intent of any public figure without hesitation. It’s an admiration that I learned while studying German language and culture in college, and feeds my great frustration for the lack of bullshit detecting going on in America, specifically every time Bush or members of his administration take the podium.

Now time for some Yogic Flying.

I wasn’t really ready for Winter, or Thanksgiving honestly. I’ve been head down at work and trying to ignore how fast the year has flown by. And then it started snowing yesterday. I watched the flakes get bigger and thicker as the day went on from my office window, and started thinking about roasted turkey, yams and pie.

This morning Penelope woke me asking for her winter boots, talking excitedly about the snow outside. We work too hard as adults I thought to myself.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

I am a feminist and the one (and probably only) thing that makes me want to vote for Hillary Clinton is sexist comments against her.

Here are some of the press offenses that Media Matters has detailed.

During the first debate on April 26th- MSNBC host Chris Matthews focused obsessively on the appearances of Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) wife, Michelle, to the point that NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell reminded him that they are Yale and Harvard-educated lawyers, respectively. MSNBC host Tucker Carlson asked a Clinton campaign spokesman whether Clinton had an “unfair advantage because of her sex.”

This summer after an appearance where Senator Clinton wore a blouse that showed some cleavage MSNBC devoted a total of 23 minutes and 42 seconds to discuss her cleavage and CNN devoted 3 minutes and 54 seconds to the coverage.

Following her appearance on all five Sunday political talk shows on September 23 — NBC’s Meet the Press, CBS’ Face the Nation, ABC’s This Week, Fox News Sunday and CNN’s Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer — political reporters and other media personalities all seized on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-NY) laugh as a new subject of attention. Starting with reports in The New York Times and the Politico, and progressing to many other outlets, commentators speculated about whether Clinton’s laughter is evidence of her “calculating” nature, with some characterizing her laugh as a “cackle” — defined by the American Heritage Dictionary as “the sound made by a hen after laying an egg.”

On the November 13 edition of Fox News’ Hannity & Colmes, co-host Sean Hannity discussed Clinton’s “temper”. The on-screen graphic shown repeatedly during the segment: Does Hillary have the right temperament to be president? The segment went from Hannity discussing her “temper” to discussing how she can’t even debate a light weight like Dodd - “how could she ever manage someone like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad”, it was asked.

Politico chief political columnist Roger Simon began his November 16 column by asserting, “The Bitch is back.”

On November 14th Politico chief political writer Mike Allen, responded to a question about referring to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) as a “bitch” by saying, “All right. But what Republican voter hasn’t thought that? What voter in general hasn’t thought that?” Allen made his comment on CNN’s American Morning while discussing a recent campaign event in Hilton Head, South Carolina, during which a questioner asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), “How do we beat the bitch?” — presumably referring to Clinton. McCain called the question an “excellent” one, later adding, “I respect Senator Clinton. I respect anyone who gets the nomination of the Democrat [sic] Party.”

More recently, at the Las Vegas debate the last question was for Senator Clinton only. “Did she prefer pearls or diamonds?” At first glance this is just stupid but it holds a lot of implications. For me, what speaks loudest in this question is, the old conundrum for woman of appearance vs the brain.

And today in the article, Republican Faithful Await a Savior in Iowa, the Washington Post reported this statement made by Larry Timmons from Le Mars, Iowa:

“I say we have to go vote because if we don’t vote, then all the women will vote and we’ll have a woman in the White House and then we got problems,” (this gets a huge laugh) “God,” he notes, “did not plan for a woman to run everything.”

Gesh. A few more comments like Larry Timmons’ and I’ll be voting for Hillary Clinton.