Hope You Enjoyed Your Fourth

Here’s hoping everyone enjoyed the Fourth of July yesterday, celebrating it, or at least having a nice time on our nation’s birthday*. I had fun, hanging out with my wife and in-laws, and enjoying a giant steak at Hapisgah Steak House here in Queens, and brought along my camera for an extreme close-up of my dinner.

To me, that’s America, good and bad. It’s excessive, and its delicious, and we thrive on being excessive in our “pursuit of happiness”. We try to do what many human beings want to do, just more successfully than others, and a lot of times we don’t realize the consequences of those actions until later. Our hearts are in the right place, and we get it right eventually, but sometimes it seems like we are just a bunch of animals, staring at juicy piece of meat. We’re not. We always […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg