An amazing new essay by a former CIA executive does not mince words in its criticism of the Bush administration’s “abuses.†I find it quite remarkable how closely this senior spook echoes dissenting positions that were labeled radical at the time. Yet perhaps most valuable is his insight into what went wrong in governmental process and how to fix it.
What if you lost the ability to know what color is?
Not just to see in color, but to conceive in color. All your memories suddenly monochromatic. The names and associations still intact — yellow bananas, red apples — but suddenly abstract.
The fact that this is possible at all tells us something about the human mind. […]
There are moments of peace, cadences in life. Periodically the mind seems to clear. Watching the rain fall. Or the ocean. Watching someone sleep, close enough to feel their warmth. Peace is when you are not thinking about being somewhere else, when you are exactly where you need to be. It’s a rainy afternoon, seen […]
