Quote for the Week, March 23-29, 2014

At the end of the day, fiscal discipline is the fundamental predicate of a free society.
--Jerry Brown, Governor of California

Tuesday Tune-up

The Cardigans, "Live and Learn"

Quote for the Week, March 16-22, 2014

You should never be proud of doing what's right.  You should just do what's right.
--Dean Smith, former UNC men's basketball coach

Tuesday Tune-up

The Sea The Sea, "Love We Are We Love"

Changing of the Guard in Ukraine

Interviewing protesters in Independence Square

Quote for the Week, March 9-15, 2014

And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.
--Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth

Tuesday Tune-up

The Band Perry, "Don't Let Me Be Lonely"

Quote for the Week, March 2-8, 2014

Sometime, in dark quiet moments alone, a Bond King may realize he was just lucky to coincide a career with a secular disinflation.
--Kevin Ferry

Tuesday Tune-up

The Honey Trees, "Moon River"

Quote for the Week, February 23-March 1, 2014

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
--Albert Einstein

Bullets Flying in Kiev

Were the sniper targets armed?

Tuesday Tune-up

Alison Krauss & Robert Plant, "Killing the Blues"

Quote for the Week, February 16-22, 2014

Political labeling nowadays has become virtually a form of abuse, driving one to try to make a political philosophy out of the defense of simple human decency.
--Harold Isaacs, writing in 1951

Tuesday Tune-up

The Cars, "Just What I Needed"

Quote for the Week, February 9-15, 2014

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
--Marcus Aurelius

Here Comes the Sun (Or Not)

Say No to hibernation:  "North of the Sun"

Tuesday Tune-up

Otis Redding, "I've Been Loving You Too Long"

Quote for the Week, February 2-8, 2014

Bitcoin is freedom. It's very American.
--Tyler Winklevoss

Bitcoin Believers

Click here for a 2-minute primer
on the new digital currency.
[from the N.Y. Times]

Tuesday Tune-up

Green Day, "Stay the Night"