Cowards can never be moral.

Cowards can never be moral.

Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern read more

Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage read more

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced read more

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

Sometimes it's Britney Spears and sometimes it's Carrie Fisher. I can't tell if I've got a Lolita complex or an read more

Sometimes it's Britney Spears and sometimes it's Carrie Fisher. I can't tell if I've got a Lolita complex or an Oedipus complex.

Obviously, a little more tepid than what markets were expecting.

Obviously, a little more tepid than what markets were expecting.

The main worry short term is the drop in the Nasdaq. The U.S. didn't back up Argentina today, so there's read more

The main worry short term is the drop in the Nasdaq. The U.S. didn't back up Argentina today, so there's still a bit of worry about that.

There's going to be an enormous amount of work that needs to be done to integrate those two companies.

There's going to be an enormous amount of work that needs to be done to integrate those two companies.

Even at low speeds, trains with that much weight can take as much as a half-mile to stop.

Even at low speeds, trains with that much weight can take as much as a half-mile to stop.