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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-17-07 07:37 AM
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== Thank God You Are Not Karl Rove = By Mark Morford

You have many things for which you can be deeply grateful. Here is one of the biggest

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/08/17/notes081707.DTL&nl=fix

Yep, you've done some horrible things in your life. Embarrassing things. Stupid. Mean. Violent, even. Eaten dirt. Smacked a baby. Kicked a kitten. Stomped some flowers. Stole. Lied. Cheated. Beat up a tree. Spit instead of swallowed. Drank bad wine. Voted Republican. Shared a needle. Promised to call and then didn't. You know, the usual.

But maybe some of these things now make you cringe and recoil and slump down a little lower in your chair when you think about them, because, well, maybe you've developed something resembling a conscience over the years, or maybe you've even gone so far as to consider the possibility of karma, of cosmic consequence, of the dire effects of wallowing for far too much of your life in all that goopy, stupid low vibration we sometimes call war or hate or religious dogma or the Olsen twins.

Yes, perhaps you can now admit you've wasted far too much of your time simmering like bad meat in a gloomy stew of illness and ugliness and ignorance and now maybe, just maybe, you're trying to evolve to a point where you can step back and look over it all with a bit of wisdom, sly perspective, a big healthy healing sigh.

Whew. It is, as they say, a hell of a lot to process. It is, after all, one hell of a messy life. ...
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Kadie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-17-07 11:03 AM
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dog_lovin_dem Donating Member (237 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-17-07 11:32 AM
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2. Absolutely Beautiful!
Morford's "Evil Evildoers of Evil" was my introduction to this fantastic writing talent. This one is right up there!
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-17-07 11:56 AM
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3. I'll have to check that one out
"Evil Evildoers of Evil"
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SalviaBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-17-07 12:49 PM
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4. K&R nt
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