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Entire rules of the MLB Rule 5 Draft
Seth’s Blog: Confusing lucky with good
Seth’s Blog: Confusing lucky with good
“So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.”
Everything you wanted to know about stock option grants but were afraid to ask « Random Peterisms
Blog: askblog: It is Sometimes Appropriate…
Iceland’s Only Baseball Club Looks For A Rally
Iceland’s Only Baseball Club Looks For A Rally
“Icelandic weather is no good for baseball”
Ibrahimovic Is The Biggest Boy In The Paris Hood
Ibrahimovic Is The Biggest Boy In The Paris Hood
“For Ibrahimović, the mesmerizing footwork and cheeky goals have become the flags of Rosengård he plants in each enemy pitch. Someone somewhere must have written a Ph.D. thesis on the Zlatan phenomenon as symptomatic of rapidly transforming Swedish society.”
Blog: The American Conservative » Rod Dreher: Individualism Uber Alles
An Imperfect God
An Imperfect God
The Hebrew “I will be what I will be” is in the imperfect tense, suggesting to us a God who is incomplete and changing…The belief that any human mind can grasp enough of God to begin recognizing perfections in him would have struck the biblical authors as a pagan conceit.
Blog: askblog: The Keynesian Fixation
Soul Food: Why cooking isn’t art
Soul Food: Why cooking isn’t art
Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. Et cetera.
Heaven Can Wait: Paul Ford
Heaven Can Wait: Paul Ford
This week, advice for a lovelorn atheist who wants to know if a Christian could love him back.
Mysterious Atmospheric River Soaks California, Where Megaflood May Be Overdue
Mysterious Atmospheric River Soaks California, Where Megaflood May Be Overdue
“They can strike the west coasts of most continents, but California seems to be a prime target. As many as nine small atmospheric rivers reach the state each year, each lasting two to three days”
The Worst
The Worst
“But the worst counters that if we’d like to de-emphasize things that we don’t want to be the focus of our life, we probably shouldn’t start by obsessing over them. That we don’t simplify by getting the very best of everything, we simplify by arranging our lives so that those things don’t matter one way or the other.”
My eBook build process
My eBook build process
…and some PDF, EPUB and MOBI tips by Pat Shaughnessy
The Awkward Transitions of Disneyland
The Awkward Transitions of Disneyland
“This is what people mean when they say Disneyland is charming: it’s a massive pile of ideas slammed down, one atop the other, with very little room to spare. This means that it’s very common to find areas where one kind of texture or surface treatment just ends because it collides with another. This is what I mean when I say Disneyland is naive.”
The Filibuster and the Consequences of Elections
The Filibuster and the Consequences of Elections
“Over time, the country will be better off if the parties can put their ideas into practice and be judged accordingly. As it is, neither side gets a fair shot, the voters never quite get what they voted for, and everybody complains about how politicians never keep their promises.”
Kutuzovs of the Left and the Right
Kutuzovs of the Left and the Right
“But the party of the right is going to be more concerned with the interests of groups that are winning (or have won in the past), whether fairly or unfairly, and the party of the left is more concerned with the interests of groups that are losing (or have not won in the past), again whether fairly or unfairly.”
Tolstoyan Conservatism
Tolstoyan Conservatism
‘Kutusov would be terrible on Fox News and MSNBC, because he says, “It’s not as simple as you think it is,” and nobody wants to hear that. It seems to me that in a political environment characterized by ideology, people make three characteristic mistakes:
1. They mistake politics for religion;
2. They mistake emoting for thinking;
3. They mistake wisdom and prudence for political weakness.’