Digest: Life is All About Tough Choices

Oil change or nap?
Halibut or monkfish? (4 to 2, monkfish, fyi)
Starbucks or single-payer health insurance?
work or play?
party on or stay home?
Elvis or The Beatles?

To some, these answers are obvious. Like how halibut is so much better than monkfish, duh.

But to others, the complexities of this world are such that one cannot make such a finite choice. In other words, as we all well know, the world is not black and white. Tom Cruise: crazy or sane? Well, he worships aliens, so that's not a good sign. But his movie just made, like, $120 million over the weekend, so that ain't bad either. So perhaps no matter what way you slice it, your blessings and your curses pretty much count for equal at the end of the day. And no matter how hard one tries, some people will never win online scrabble.

Perhaps even more importantly, today we also learned about willpower. About the moral strength inside us that got us to work on time (or relatively so), that helped us stare down our fears and addictions, that finally convinced us that vegetarianism is the only ethically sound form of food consumption, that bolstered our self-esteems in times of darkness, that allowed us to survive NPR related work fiascoes, among other difficult tasks.

Lesson of the day: Always tip your pizza delivery man!

P.S. Happy Birthday, America. The H. stands for Freedom.