Skepticism

Be skeptical, or rather be joyful though you have considered all the facts.

Police brutality: "Here in Los Angeles, blacks are arrested for marijuana possession at seven times the rate whites are, according to a study by the Drug Policy Alliance, which favors legalization. Yet surveys consistently find that young whites use marijuana at higher rates than young blacks."

"But both protagonists are, finally, allegorical figures, and the films work most powerfully as morality tales. As such, they dispense both comfort and cautionary wisdom, and enact a symbolic revenge against the powerful and the very rich, who, F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “are not like you and me.” They are sadder, lonelier, experiencing the very success that makes them the objects of our envy as a kind of exile. What they really want is to be like everyone else. So who is excluding whom?"

Souter

"For the tensions that are the stuff of judging in so many hard constitutional cases are, after all, the products of our aspirations to value liberty, as well as order, and fairness and equality, as well as liberty. And the very opportunity for conflict between the good and the good reflects our confidence that a way must be found to resolve it when a conflict arises." - Souter (on the conflict that's missing in Copenhagen?)

The future is now

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/18/business/global/18bus.html?src=me&ref=business

Being ethical and doing good are not the same thing.

Why the Senate must change

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/09/100809fa_fact_packer