Music for Our Times
The turbulence in the financial markets shows no sign of ending.  Commodities buyers, including food companies and airlines, suffer large losses from ”hedging” programs as prices plummet.  “Hedge” funds suffer losses that are exacerbated by the high leverage applied during calmer days; redemptions are limited.  Industries and unions beg for our tax dollars.  State governments beg for our other […]

Or—to seriously mix our metaphors—falling head-over-heels for the wolves’ claims that the “sky is falling.”
Our favorite line from the play and movie, A Man for All Seasons, is Saint Thomas More’s statement at his trial in which he gently belittles one of his perjuring accusers, Richie Rich:
“Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for […]

Yesterday, we read the quote below while donating blood.  (We can’t think too much about the actual process.)  We liked the quote so much, we decided to post it on our Quotes page at the first opportunity.  Several of our essays, like