Jealousy and Utopia

On our walk today I saw two dead pigeons. I spotted one when some other birds were jumping up around it. I thought from a distance that they were pigeons, too. I could see small feathers in a big circle. When we got near I could see it had deep wounds around its neck. So…

From an article in the BBC History magazine on change in the 1800s: By the early 1860s, around 400 million photographic cards of celebrities were being sold every year in Britain alone.

The Week reproduced this report under the title Cox’s Bazar, Refugees left at sea: Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, packed into boats in the Bay of Bengal, are at risk of starving to death, as countries are refusing them entry owing to coronavirus fears. Amnesty International says it knows of five such boats waiting off the…

In Viktor Frankl’s ‘Yes to life in spite of everything’ – a collection of lectures he gave after WWII – he talks about the preciousness and value of life precisely because it is finite. We live in a world of consequences, where our actions, words, thoughts, bring about results we care about, where events bigger…

Sometime between January and April of this year, Tap increased its prices from $5.00/month to $12.00/month. It was cheap before, and I didn’t think the service could continue at that price. How can you make money at that level? Still, a jump to $12.00, that’s a big jump. In percentage terms it’s a 240% jump….

He read an extremely interesting storyabout an amnesiacwho was captivated by the storyhe was readingAnd forgot he was there. He thought he was at workstacking shelvesproving right those who said he wouldNever amount to anything The woman on the tillgave him the bookbecause he showed promise He thought was in aisle sevennear the baked goodsstacking…