So I’m watching the George Harrison special and I’m staggered to learn he grew up in a house without electricity. But it was worse. Heat was one stove, fired by coal, could that have contributed to his cancer? And then they go to Hamburg, where Klaus Voormann talks about seeing the Beatles on the Reeperbahn. […]

"The blackest despair that can take hold of any society is the fear that living honestly is futile." -Italian journalist Corrado Alvaro, quoted in the Sydney Australian Via "The Week" This is what bothers people. The belief that the game is rigged, that if they play by the rules they just can’t win. And winning […]

So I’m listening to William Shatner on Howard Stern. And he says he owes his career to saying yes, if anybody asks, that’s what he says. He’s open to any idea, because you never know the end result. That didn’t sound right to me. Because if it’s not right, I don’t want to play. It’s […]

You either have it or you don’t. That was Billy Beane’s take. The aged scouts would always see potential. Billy thought potential was bullshit. Instead of fantasizing about tomorrow’s statistics, it was better to look at what the player had already accomplished. The only dreaming done was by the players who wanted to be in […]