I’d lay my head on the railroad tracks and wait for the Double E but the railroad don’t run no more

It has been a banner week for the U.S. House of Representatives. In the midst of continued economic hardship at home and events on the world stage with the potential to create a startling shift in the geopolitical landscape, they passed an ever-so-timely apology for slavery. To be fair, they weren’t entirely oblivious to the the cataclysmic events dominating the news (and by “news” I don’t mean to imply that the events dominated cable news networks where footage of wild traffic arrests or breathless, hand-wringing reports about missing children still took priority). They did, after all, overwhelmingly pass a resolution … Continue reading I’d lay my head on the railroad tracks and wait for the Double E but the railroad don’t run no more

Raise the walls and shout its flaws, a carpenter should rest

Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball and a new book conspicuously timed to coincide with Father’s Day, was on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night. During the interview, he shared the advice his father once gave him, calling it the Lewis family motto: “Do as little as possible, and that unnwillingly, for it is better to receive a slight reprimand than to perform an arduous task.” I think I may have just found my new family motto. (Posted simultaneously to “Jelly-Town!”) Continue reading Raise the walls and shout its flaws, a carpenter should rest