Stuff 1

Stuff 1

Suddenly the Pirates have two pitchers with ERA in the mid-threes and last night introduced a new kid who threw a one-hitter for six innings and was spotting a 100 mph fastball.


Although one person’s income may be a hundred or a thousand times greater than another’s, it is of course very doubtful that one person is a hundred or a thousand times more intelligent or works a hundred or a thousand times as hard. But, again, input is not the measure of value. Results are. --Sowell


Talib, arguing that the preservation of mystery is essential to religion and Vatican 11's switch to English was damaging, writes: 'The fastest growing religion today is Sunni Islam, with one and a half billion followers, all praying in Arabic, a foreign language to nine tenth of them, and in an ancient version (fusha) never, never spoken in conversation by Arabs –when a Moroccan wants to converse with a Lebanese, they do so in French or English, not classical Arabic. Judaism survived with its prayers only in Hebrew (and some Aramaic as in the book of Daniel).'

Did the subsidies to the airline industries during the suicidal shutdown go to buyouts and early retirement? Did that lead to shortages of workers?