“Apologies are cheap and effective all out of proportion to their cost. Carry them like a roll of bills in your hip pocket and pass them out freely.” Nat Jaffe in Telegraph Avenue a Nove...Read More
I just finished reading Terry Pratchett’s new book Dodger on my Kindle. It was a great read and like all of Pratchett’s books full of pithy humor and word play. Highly recommended! H...Read More
Exhaustipated: Just to tired to give a shit from Gene B. Usage example: “Getting ready for the Temple Book Sale on October 28th has made me exhaustipated.”...Read More
Last Sunday I went to the Library at PJTC (Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center) to help get ready for the Book Sale on October 28th. I am the titular head of the library and call myself the “est...Read More
One of my book groups recently read The Fall of the Roman Empire by Peter Heather. It was a bit of a slog getting through the book but it lead to an unusually animated discussion about whether the p...Read More
“Most of us make an instinctive decision, then build an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense.” The above quote is from the book The Sense of an End...Read More
“a very considerable degree of inequality…is not near so great an evil as a very small degree of uncertainty.” Adam Smith on Taxation in The Wealth of Nations quoted by P. J. O’...Read More
“It is relatively easy to default on sovereign debt when a substantial number of the bond holders are foreign.” Niall Ferguson The Ascent of Money...Read More
“The border has not always been a barrier and there is no reason to think that it will not become something else in the future.” Rachel St. John Line in the Sand: A History of the Western ...Read More