- Two just – well, “amazing” wouldn’t do them justice – stories about the bombing. Carlos Arredondo & this one couple that understands something I can only hope to understand.
- George Szirtes sums up the situation in Hungary. To say the least, “not good.”
- Left-liberal rant about equality is very good: “Over the past 40 years—the period of rising economic inequality that former Slate columnist Timothy Noah called “The Great Divergence”—Americans’ incomes have not grown at all, in real dollars. But baseball players’ incomes have increased twentyfold in real dollars: the average major-league salary in 2012 was $3,213,479. The income gap between ballplayers and their fans closely resembles the rising gap between CEOs and their employees, which grew during the same period from roughly 25-to-1 to 380-to-1.”
- “What, after all, does education offer to people if not a greater sense of being human?”
- Yuja Wang plays Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto – one of those “even if you hate classical music, this is the most awesome thing ever” things