“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.”
from Outliers
by Malcolm Gladwell
*FYI - “Reading,” in quotes = “listening to as an audio book”
Same-sex marriage measure sails through Vt. Senate
By Adam Silverman, USA TODAY
Again - I must add a note that this does NOT mean that I believe marriage should be the purview of government at ALL - just that if it is so - it should not be limited to 1 man - 1 woman.
Excellent editorial from Leonard Pitts at the Miami Herald. Gotta love the first line:
Sometimes, progress carries an asterisk.
Thanks, P, for the heads up.
In case you’ve been away from the media today - you MUST watch this clip from Meet the Press in which Colin Powell expresses his endorsement for President.
After Bailout, AIG Executives Head to Resort
– Peter Whoriskey, WashingtonPost.com
Less than a week after the federal government offered an $85 billion bailout to insurance giant AIG, the company held a week-long retreat for its executives at the luxury St. Regis Resort in Monarch Beach, Calif., running up a tab of $440,000, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) said today at the the opening of a House committee hearing about the near-failure of the insurance giant. [click link above for complete article]
J.K. Rowlings
Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets