If you are born into a family with financial security l actually think dedicating your life to actively trying to help people is probably the best you could do.
James Wood is my sweet son. He's Intelligent, kind, funny, and a hell of baseball player. James Woods with an "s" is an actor and a different sort of fella altogether. Felt like that was important to say right about now. Sure wish others were as careful about spelling as I am.
Paul Skenes on Ryan O'Hearn's 3 homer, 10 RBI game. 🤣
"I think it was kinda selfish, to be honest. Everybody else is getting on. Home runs are rally killers.
You hit a 3- run home run or a grand slam...and what now? There's nobody on. Nobody can drive him in. Good for him, I guess."
That tweet that’s like “hell gotta be so awkward just filled with nazis and Israelis and they’re stuck down there together forever” bro that’s not hell that’s Argentina
these great cathedrals are indeed massive, astonishing. but look beyond surfaces & what are they?--monuments to the overwhelming authority & power of the Church displaying such wealth & aligning itself with wealthy ruling classes from which its highest priests were drawn.
institutionalized religion is surely the first, the biggest, one might say the best con in human history; proof that humankind will believe & even pay for any fantasy so long as it assures them that they have immortal souls & are very special.
Randy Arozarena stepped out of the box on three straight pitches because he knew the pitcher wasn’t throwing him a strike.
The count went to 3-0.
Next pitch, he absolutely nuked a home run.
One of the most disrespectful at-bats in MLB history.
(it is still baffling to many people. granted, some wealthy individuals are vain & self-aggrandizing but if so, why not endow a cancer research center, or children's hospital, or public park?--the donor could swagger about accepting praise & compliments. some good would come of it. but to use wealth to stoke animosities between people, to be all but openly urging a "race war," is incomprehensible.)
James Robison
What Joyce Carol Oates wrote to Elon Musk on Twitter. I am told it rattled him. I love it.
“So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates – scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend’s or relative’s accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the ‘most wealthy person in the world.’”