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Monday, March 06, 2006
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“On many a workday lunchtime, the nominal boss of U.S. intelligence, John D. Negroponte, can be found at a private club in downtown Washington, getting a massage, taking a swim, and having lunch, followed by a good cigar and a perusal of the daily papers in the club’s library. ‘He spends three hours there [every] Monday through Friday,’ gripes a senior counterterrorism official.” (Via TPM)
(Via Think Progress.)
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Jon Carroll
Friday, March 3, 2006
Let me just check the handbook again. Yup, it's right there: Treat other people the way you would like to be treated. Cultivate compassion, kindness, respect. Understand the power of love. Honor the divine spirit inside every person. Anger is a choice. Hope is a necessity.
It's not easy. It's not meant to be easy. If it were easy, we wouldn't need a handbook. But it's necessary -- not for the world, not even for other people, but for ourselves. We have only one life, we have only one conscience, we have only chance to get it right. We can still forgive, right up until the moment when we can no longer forgive anything, no longer set anything right, no longer say what we really meant to say before. The time of that moment is not known, so a prudent person would start now.
10:44:17 PM
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