Sexy violent TV; Are Americans dumb?

Top 10 hottest 'Get Smart' girls

(Hughesovski) After a lot of feedback, it was decided to do an update. Feel it's important to keep the original Top 10 with some honorable mentions. Thanks. Anyone who remembers Captain Gadget probably doesn't know that the Saturday morning cartoon was based on the violent comedy stylings of Control's Agent 86 Maxwell Smart on Get Smart in a Cold War back-and-forth with Kaos. RIP: Lynn Borden (1937-2015), Angelique Pettyjohn (1943-1992), Lyn Peters (1941-2013), Karen Steele (1931-1988).

How America got so st*pid

(BritMonkey) Why American culture became everything, everywhere, all at once -- it's called hegemony.

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Wisdom Quarterly hits another million views

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The world has four problems and just four. What are they? They are greed, hatred/fear, and delusion. In the hopes of reducing delusion -- manifesting as wrong views, ignorance, nescience, and foolishness -- we work at Wisdom Quarterly.

Does it help? Who knows? It may be making things worse. But if a person becomes interested in the Dharma, then that is our dhamma-dana and it's the best medicine, sometimes slow to show its good effects from not being practiced enough. When practiced, then it is of immediate effect.

For instance, what is the cure for confusion and delusion? It is mindfulness (sati). The moment one remembers to be mindful, confusion stops. When hate or fear (dosa or bhava, aversion, annoyance, anger, animosity, revulsion) arises, the immediate cure is agape (metta, loving-kindness, compassion/wish to alleviate, nonharming). When greed (lobha, attraction, liking, lust, grasping, clinging) arises, the immediate cure is letting go (nekkhamma, which can be done by looking on mindfully at the thing until its true nature reveals itself, e.g., the repulsive or asubha nature of the body, the downside, the danger, the hook in the lure, the unsatisfactory and disappointing or inability for things we chase after to ever fulfill us).

Every additional million views, we show a kind a photo. It's dumb, it's juvenile, but we do it. This million came quickly while in the midst of the greatest month of views ever, thousands more than a quarter million. Among Buddhist websites, that must be something, right?

• Hughesovski, June 3, 2017; BritMonkey) Aug. 1, 2023; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly