First Seasons

The trailers for:

• "Endeavour"
• "The Leftovers"
• "Bosch"
• "The Walking Dead"
• "Sherlock"
• "Justified"
• "Rome"

Quote of the Day

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

- Frederick Buechner

Music for Good Friday

Judy Collins: "Amazing Grace."

First Paragraph

At the hour of the hot spring sunset two citizens appeared at the Patriarch's Ponds. One of them, approximately forty years old, dressed in a grey summer suit, was short, dark-haired, plump, bald, and carried his respectable fedora hat in his hand. His neatly shaven face was adorned with black horn-rimmed glasses of a supernatural size. The other, a broad-shouldered young man with tousled reddish hair, his checkered cap cocked back on his head, was wearing a cowboy shirt, wrinkled white trousers and black sneakers.

- From The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Bock: Become an Intentional Reader

Wally Bock has great advice on how to select and read business books.

Perspectives

Jonathan Pie, who was anti-Brexit, takes on the current anti-Brexit marchers. (Very R-rated)
Victor Davis Hanson compares Obama and Baldwin. [I wonder how many journalism grads know anything about Stanley Baldwin.]
Max Holleran on Marshall Berman's freestyle Marxism.
Alice B. Lloyd on "Charging Bull" versus "Fearless Girl."

Signs of Aging

This is the order in which I begin to notice that people in certain jobs seemed younger than I'd expected:

1. Cops. I recall looking at a police officer years ago and thinking, "That guy looks like he's in high school."
2. Politicians. I confess to a certain bias here. Although JFK was a major political figure of my youth, so was Eisenhower and I've never bought into the "younger is better" baloney. And now I see some presidential candidates and wonder if they strolled in from a race for student council.
3. Baseball Players. What is this? Little League?
4. Doctors. This was the final trench. I met a doctor a couple of years back who seemed like a very bright eighth grader. Of course, she probably thought I look like Rip Van Winkle. Both of us may be correct.

Have any other jobs jarred you with youthfulness?

Quote of the Day

The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage - they have little competition.

- Andrew Carnegie

Music Break

The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra in a recording session of the overture from the soundtrack of "Is Paris Burning?"

Maurice Jarre was a genius.

Perhaps They Will "Re-Accommodate" Him

Anderson Layman's Blog notes a creative foreign policy idea.