Reading

Bloomberg Businessweek, always a good read.

"The United States has no purpose. That is perhaps its greatest achievement. America's founding document, its Declaration of Independence, allows that a state exists only to secure life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's it. There's a curious lack of ambition in those words. The United States was not founded for the greater glory of anything, or as the necessary outcome of history, but for the freedom to collect figurines, to join a clogging troupe, to take a road trip. Yet these words, which carry no ideology whatsoever, are the ones that keep winning...There's been much discussion, since the evening his death was announced, of the appropriate way to celebrate the end of Osama bin Laden. you might consider embracing what defeated him. Do something private and ridiculous, something that answers to no creed. Pursue happiness."

Peace.