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

Copenhagen - Stockholm - Turku - Helsinki - Copenhagen

More on this later...

Actually, perhaps now is the time to list my travels from start to finish in an intimidating way:

Liberty, MO - New Haven - Boston - Inuvik, NWT, Canada - Woods Hole - Copenhagen - Stockholm - Turku - Helsinki - Copenhagen - Tuscon - Windsor - Tampa - New Haven...

Denmark much?

"People like Steinbrenner are also an antidote to — if I can be pseudo-intellectual for a second (and if I can’t who can?) — Tocqueville’s great fear. The Great Frenchman had many nice things to say about the culture of democracy, but he was plagued by the sense that democratic culture would be gentle, mild and mediocre. It would seduce people with its pleasantness into giving up strong passions and grand ambitions."

Ross Douthat

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/opinion/12douthat.html?src=me&ref=general