My mother and I exchanged knowing glances, but we never said the obvious nor asked any questions on both of our minds. We knew there would not be much longer. There was nothing to say or ask that would furnish any useful information; inquiry, at that stage, can only inflict pain.
~ Dean Ball via Hyperdimensional
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Merlin Otello here. I recently picked up a copy of Depeche Mode: The Unauthorized Biography by Soledad Romero Mariño while browsing Audreys — my favourite independent bookstore in Edmonton, Alberta. I read it on my flight from YEG back to YYZ and found it quite enjoyable. I handed this book off to Jasper last week.
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Apple officially joined the Dow Jones Industrial Average on this day – March 19 – in 2015.
The company replaced AT&T, which had been DJIA component since 1916. This move was effectuated by Apple’s seven-for-one stock split the previous year, which brought its share price into a range that wouldn’t overly distort the price-weighted index.
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via The Atlantic:
The College-Educated Working Class
by George Packer
published on March 16, 2026
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In the past thirty or so years, the academy has replaced the church as the center of the liberal moral imagination, providing the sense of a community bound by ethics, a firmament of texts and knowledge that should inform action, and a meeting space for like-minded people.
~ Jay Caspian Kang via The New Yorker
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The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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