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Category Archives: Prose
QUOTE OF THE DAY: Keynes on Bankers
QUOTE OF THE DAY: Keynes on Bankers In the financial industry, the imperative to minimize career risk produces herd behavior. As John Maynard Keynes… put it, “A sound banker, alas! is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, … Continue reading
Traveler’s Journal (December 2007)
Traveler’s Journal (December 2007) The ancient Greeks believed that the spirits of the newly dead, arriving in the underworld, had to drink from the River Lethe whose magical waters erased their memories and prepped them for oblivion. Something similar must … Continue reading
Quote of the Day
From LEAD POISONING IN CHINA: THE HIDDEN SCOURGE (New York Times: Wednesday, June 15, 2011) “…Han Zongyuan, a [battery] factory worker, said he learned in March that [his daughter] had absorbed enough lead to irreversibly diminish her intellectual capacity and … Continue reading
Two Quotes of the Day: Adam Gopnik on the Internet & Consciousness
Two Quotes of the Day: Adam Gopnik on the Internet & Consciousness Our trouble is not the over-all absence of smartness but the intractable power of pure stupidity, and no machine, or mind, seems extended enough to cure that. Some machine … Continue reading
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Quote of the Day: Frank Rich on 9/11 & The “Looting of America”
Looters, it turns out, aren’t found only on the streets of London or Birmingham… Frank Rich on our long day’s journey into night since 9/11. from Day’s End: The 9/11 decade is now over. The terrorists lost. But who won? Frank … Continue reading →