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twitter.com/burrisland:

    My senior uncle, Bob Morris, 90+ and looking like a professor of philosophy or religion. Photo by his daughter, Judy Hixenbaugh, who sent it to Pam who did what she always does … forwards it to her brothers …

    My senior uncle, Bob Morris, 90+ and looking like a professor of philosophy or religion. Photo by his daughter, Judy Hixenbaugh, who sent it to Pam who did what she always does … forwards it to her brothers …

    — 3 weeks ago
    "I have often been asked if Christopher defended me because he was my close friend. The truth is that he became my close friend because he wanted to defend me."
    — 3 weeks ago
    The Evolution of an Investor →

    Basically, a journalistic treatment from the best business writer working today about the investment philosophy I adopted about 5 years ago.

    — 3 weeks ago
    "Dante created his great image of divine intent, justice and grace as the architecture of time and being. Milton explored the ancient, and Calvinist, teaching that the first sin was a felix culpa, a fortunate fall, and providential because it prepared the way for the world’s ultimate reconciliation to God. So his Satan is glorious, and the hell prepared for his minions is strikingly tolerable. What to say about Melville? He transferred the great poem at the end of Job into the world of experience, and set against it a man who can only maintain the pride of his humanity until this world overwhelms him. His God, rejoicing in his catalog of the splendidly fierce and untamable, might ask, “Hast thou seen my servant Ahab?"
    The Book of Books - What Literature Owes the Bible - NYTimes.com I have repeated many times something someone told me once, that all Western literature has at its foundation two sources: the King James Bible and Shakespeare. This study seems to support that.
    — 1 month ago

    Introducing Nest. A friend and kindred spirit sent me a note about this product, a smart thermostat that appears to be an easy retrofit. Watch the video, visit the site and change how you live.

    — 2 months ago
    Robert Reich: The Corporate Pledge of Allegiance →

    robertreich:

    Despite what the Supreme Court and Mitt Romney say, corporations aren’t people. (I’ll believe they are when Georgia and Texas start executing them.)

    The Court thinks corporations have First Amendment rights to spend as much as they want on politics, and Romney (and most of his fellow…

    — 2 months ago with 157 notes
    motherjones:

New Yorker sports writer extraordinaire and member of journalism royalty Roger Angell kept a scorecard of last night’s epic World Series Game Six, which is the baseball equivalent of solving Fermat’s Theorem on a Subway napkin. Click here for the embiggened card.

    motherjones:

    New Yorker sports writer extraordinaire and member of journalism royalty Roger Angell kept a scorecard of last night’s epic World Series Game Six, which is the baseball equivalent of solving Fermat’s Theorem on a Subway napkin. Click here for the embiggened card.

    — 3 months ago with 183 notes
    newyorker:

“With Game Seven waiting as a last gift, we’ve mastered baseball’s only sensible lesson, which is stay tuned.”Read Roger Angell and Amy Davidson on last night’s historic game.

    newyorker:

    “With Game Seven waiting as a last gift, we’ve mastered baseball’s only sensible lesson, which is stay tuned.”

    Read Roger Angell and Amy Davidson on last night’s historic game.

    — 3 months ago with 220 notes
    "I decided to make this trip in the first place because I felt my résumé for adventure wasn’t keeping pace with my advancing age. Unlike my last trip, which I viewed, somewhat contradictorily, as both a young man’s errand and a farewell to youth, this one, at age 57, has been about my encroaching mortality, no doubt about it, and when I compare the two journeys I recognize in the current one the frailty of age."
    — 3 months ago