Paying in Pittsburgh

Dr. Boli's Celebrated Magazine describes how to pay fares in Pittsburgh; the actual directions are really that complicated.

Why good grammar matters

Kyle Wiens describes why good grammar matters:

Applicants who don't think writing is important are likely to think lots of other (important) things also aren't important.

Hat tip: First Thoughts

Burke and Hobbes

George Weigel's article on Thomas Hobbes and Edmund Burke. His take:

In a Hobbesian world, the only actors of consequence are the state and the individual. In a Burkean world, the institutions of civil society—family, religious congregation, voluntary association, business, trade union and so forth—“mediate” between the individual and the state, and the just state takes care to provide an appropriate legal framework in which those civil-society institutions can flourish.

Sports and the Meaning of Life

Came across these two articles about two people in big-time college sports who found (are trying to find) the meaning of life somewhere else: a woman soccer player at LSU and Urban Meyer.

Short story by Fitzgerald

Thank You for the Light by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The New Yorker, August 6, 2012. HT: First Thoughts.