Bulla & Everyone Else

Everyone sings in India. Birj mentioned this in passing. I had forgotten it. This is the song, he said, that all the kids on the streets were singing when I was last there.

Friday morning, I put on Rabbi in the car. Bulla streams out as the sun glances off downtown San Francisco. I’m approaching the city, on the bay bridge. Rabbi’s sound, Bulleh Shah’s words, kids with nothing who keep singing the words of a Sufi poet from the mid-18th century.

Nor did I create the difference of faith
Nor did I create adam-eve
Nor did I name myself
Beginning or end I know just the self
Do not acknowledge duality
There’s none wiser than I
Who is this Bulla Shah
Bulla! I know not who I am

Open Access & Fetal Pain

Peter Suber with Open Access News and John Wilbanks from Science Commons highlight (1, 2) the open access argument in the recent furore over fetal pain and the JAMA review. That’s in addition to the UC Davis Intellectual Property & Social Justice Blog (thanks Leena!)

(Since the original post was cross-posted on Bayosphere, I’m having to use trackbacks, I apologize for the confusion).