The weather finally turned crisper in the Northeast thanks to cooler air moving into the region from Canada.
I hope it didn’t have to pay a tax at the border or maybe surrender its son, Cool Air Jr.
You have to worry about everything and everyone crossing the American borders these days. On Friday, President Donald J. Trumpet imposed tariffs of 25 percent on 800 Chinese goods coming into the U.S. while China imposed tariffs on soybeans, corn and pork, which hurts American farmers, who largely went for Trump in the last election. …
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Read MoreIn 1975, James Clavell published “Shōgun,” a blockbuster novel about an English sailor caught up in 17th-century Japan’s feudal, xenophobic power struggles. The novel, which became a hit 1980 miniseries starring Richard Chamberlain, was frank about sex and even franker about violence. But the underlying theme was that of karma and the idea that “karma was always karma.”
We think of karma as fate or destiny. But that is only one aspect of the Eastern principle of cause and effect. What karma says is that what you sow, you shall reap, but not in the eye-for-an-eye way of ancient Judaism. Rather, karma is like physics. I send a pendulum away from me, it comes back with a force equal to that with which I sent it away. …
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