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A Certain Moral Flexibility

Marty: “When I left, I joined the Army, and when I took the service exam, my psych profile fit a certain... ‘moral flexibility’ would be the only way to describe it. I was loaned out to a CIA-sponsored program, and we sort of found ...

Sovereign Triviality

Above all else, the mentat must be a generalist, not a specialist. It is wise to have decisions of great moment monitored by generalists. Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious qu...

Too Funky for Me

Hey, you’re just too funky for me I gotta get inside of you And I’ll show you heaven if you let me Hey you’re just too funky for me I gotta get inside, (I gotta get inside) I gotta get inside of you (so when will that be?) I watch your fingers w...

Pixels Don’t Breathe

As usual with de Kooning, the handling is wet-in-wet—high-keyed color worked with lots of white paint, which keeps things lively and advancing. There are screechy yellows, electric blues, boudoir pinks, and—as painter friends assure me&mda...

We Get Mail!

From the mailbox:1From: [Redacted]To: The Epicurean DealmakerSent: December 13, 2010 2:24 AMSubject: I need advice way more that the other slobs who write youTED,I found your commentary through ftalphaville which [I] read as part of an Investment B...

It’s All How You Look at It

"No, and I don't want to," said Frodo. "I can't understand you. Do you mean to say that you, and the Elves, have let him live on after all those horrible deeds? Now at any rate he is as bad as an Orc, and just an enemy. He deserves death.""Deserves it!...

American Baby

If these walls came crumblin' down
Fell so hard, to make us lose our faith
From what's left you'd figure it out
Still make lemonade taste like a sunny day

Stay, beautiful baby
I hope you
Stay, American baby

H is for Hedge Fund

“Were the judgments we made reasonable ones?” a former top Harvard administrator asked me, rhetorically, addressing the sharp increase in expenses and capital commitments of the last decade. “At the time, I think they were reasonable judgments. It turns out, with...