Beards

Another Reason I Don’t Own A Gun

Here's another poem by Billy Collins. We introduced Collins with a post back in 2008. This is just something I stumbled across at Barnes and Noble today. Can you relate? All for now...

The neighbors’ dog will not stop barking.

He is barking the same high, rhythmic bark

that he barks every time they leave the house.

They must switch him on on their way out.

The neighbors’ dog will not stop barking.

I close all the windows in the house

and put on a Beethoven symphony full blast

but I can still hear him muffled under the music,

barking, barking, barking,

and now I can see him sitting in the orchestra,

his head raised confidently as if Beethoven

had included a part for barking dog.

When the record finally ends he is still barking,

sitting there in the oboe section barking,

his eyes fixed on the conductor who is

entreating him with his baton

while the other musicians listen in respectful

silence to the famous barking dog solo,

that endless coda that first established

Beethoven as an innovative genius.

let's do something fun

Here's the book that my little face has been buried in this week. It's almost 400 uninspiring pages long and reads slower than Dickens. But the story is interesting and the perspectives are insightful. If you can handle the tortuous pace maybe give it a read when you have a free weekend. I have to write an essay about it, and discuss the lessons that a reader would learn from the characters and their actions. I think its like an ethics exercise. My lessons are like this (1) Insecurity is dangerous. (2) Manipulators Reproduce, and (3) Legality is not Equality. Sounds intriguing, I know.

I  went bowling tonight. I edited this post 5 times.

Tomorrow I'm a free man. Paper is due at 3pm and this overworked accountant will take a long nap. Wednesday will be spent at Chick-fil-a. There is a new store opening and a bunch of us are going to camp out in the parking lot for 24 hours and get 52 free combo meals. Do the math.

Then it's off to Murfreesboro for the weekend, over to Mission Viejo on Tuesday, and Anaheim the next week for the semiannaul. Wedding follows, a possible trip to see my aunt, and then my life ends because I have to start studying for something called the....

edward hopper

time for a new post

Quote of the Week

Without human beings, the universe has no meaning; without Christians, our communities have no meaning; and without Christ, Christians have no meaning. Hence, Christ is the meaning of the universe. The meaning of the universe lies in those Christians who have Christ operating in them.

 The Meaning of Human Life and A Proper Consecration, p. 31

We Work at KPMG

What should Wall Street do?

That's the title to an interesting and compelling article from the Economist this week. Here's a quick teaser...

AS THOUSANDS have gathered in Lower Manhattan, passionately expressing their deep discontent with the status quo, we have taken note of these protests,” wrote Lloyd Blankfein, the boss of Goldman Sachs, in a recent letter to investors. “And we have asked ourselves this question: ‘How can we make money off them?’ The answer is the newly launched Goldman Sachs Global Rage Fund.” This will invest in firms likely to benefit from social unrest, such as window repairers and makers of police batons. As Mr Blankfein explained: “At Goldman, we recognise that the capitalist system as we know it is circling the drain—but there’s plenty of money to be made on the way down.

The letter is a spoof, penned by Andy Borowitz...

You can find the full article here.

Camping out today with the bros...