Like Buddha, like son

Sting Does The East. Enjoyable and clearly written spiritual travelogue from rock polymath Sting on his encounter with Himalayan Buddhism. The anecdote about the ubiquity of Kenny G's noodlings is particularly funny. And as if pop-star-as-William-Theisger wasn't presumptious enough, here's Thom Yorke of Radiohead coming on all Pilger-lite about the Hutton report. I do enjoy (no, I do enjoy) pop stars rising above their prescribed intellectual stations...