I'm headed out on Friday for Bangkok, where I'll be spending 2 weeks with PDA, a very successful social enterprise working across the country in HIV prevention and education, economic development, and rural health.
I'll be blogging about this (internet access permitting) from the road, at www.catfund.com/thailand.
Back in July
JS.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Friday, June 01, 2007
you go, peggy
I don't always agree with conservative writer Peggy Noonan, but I almost always think she's got her head screwed on and her heart in the right place. In her most recent column she succinctly puts her finger on one of the core truths about the broken and dangerous Bush administration:
"What I came in time to believe is that the great shortcoming of this White House, the great thing it is missing, is simple wisdom. Just wisdom--a sense that they did not invent history, that this moment is not all there is, that man has lived a long time and there are things that are true of him, that maturity is not the same thing as cowardice, that personal loyalty is not a good enough reason to put anyone in charge of anything, that the way it works in politics is a friend becomes a loyalist becomes a hack, and actually at this point in history we don't need hacks."
Peggy Noonan's column is online at:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/
"What I came in time to believe is that the great shortcoming of this White House, the great thing it is missing, is simple wisdom. Just wisdom--a sense that they did not invent history, that this moment is not all there is, that man has lived a long time and there are things that are true of him, that maturity is not the same thing as cowardice, that personal loyalty is not a good enough reason to put anyone in charge of anything, that the way it works in politics is a friend becomes a loyalist becomes a hack, and actually at this point in history we don't need hacks."
Peggy Noonan's column is online at:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/
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