Sectarian Chauvinism

Buddhist monks light candles while chanting at Buddhamonthon. Photo by Pornchai Kittiwongsakul. I wanted a picture of a mob of monks rioting, but I couldn't find any. Yes, there's David Carradine, but he's only one guy,

Today's Bizzaro comic in the paper has a Buddhist monk haranging a group of his fellows with a bullhorn. He asks "What do we want?", and the group replies "Mindfulness". He asks "When do we want it?", and the group shouts "Now!", which reminded me of this story I read in Time magazine earlier this summer:

Straying From the Middle Way: Extremist Buddhist Monks Target Religious Minorities

These paywalls and copyright enthusiasts are cramping my style. Bizarro's website doesn't post his daily comics. I could have scanned my paper copy, but that would have meant more work, and who knows?, I might have gotten embroiled in copyright fight. The Time magazine story has a link to a longer story, but to get to it, you have to pay.

I tried to find a copy of Smuggler's Blues on YouTube yesterday, but Don Henley seems to have taken the ZZ Top route of issuing take down notices for each and every one of their recordings. Usually when you find a video where the audio has been removed there is a notice of alleged copyright infringement. Not the case for Smuggler's Blues, just no audio. I smell a conspiracy. Or maybe I just stepped in something yucky.

Sectarian Chauvinism indeed.

The Huffington Post has a story that is not behind a paywall.

I got the term "Sectarian Chauvinism" from the Time article. I have never heard it before. I think it means "jerk", or maybe "my stuff is better than your stuff, neener, neener, neener", or perhaps "die herectic scum".