Would you be my....

The Dharma has come to the West, and US Commerce has come to the East.

A Times of India editorial notes how the popularity of Valentine's Day has begun to overshadow Makha Bucha -- the holiest day of the calendar, which celebrates the Buddha's birth, enlightenment, and death -- in Thailand. (Here's a quick primer on Makha Bucha...) The Thai authorities aren't taking this lying down.

They're planning to break new musical ground by borrowing western hip hop rhythms to promote traditional values and persuade an increasingly westernised generation back to its roots.

Yup: "Dharma Rap."

I could say, If you can't beat them join them... but that would be too easy. Just as long as I don't have to get a tattoo.