The Dalai Lama's been hanging out in Seattle all weekend, for a series of lectures and events and things. His English is a little shaky, his answers to questions are a little rambling, but he's funny and he keeps saying something profound. I mean, just one refrain, repeated a few times over:
"I don't know."
It's sort of rare in a world leader, I think; to just be able to admit, without shame or dissembling, that there are some things outside his area of experience and better left to experts. It's refreshing to hear.
Plus, he made some jokes about safe sex.