and in other news

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/opinion/30brooks.html?src=me&ref=homepage

The best of which is:

The overall impression from this research is that economic and professional success exists on the surface of life, and that they emerge out of interpersonal relationships, which are much deeper and more important.

The second impression is that most of us pay attention to the wrong things. Most people vastly overestimate the extent to which more money would improve our lives. Most schools and colleges spend too much time preparing students for careers and not enough preparing them to make social decisions. Most governments release a ton of data on economic trends but not enough on trust and other social conditions. In short, modern societies have developed vast institutions oriented around the things that are easy to count, not around the things that matter most. They have an affinity for material concerns and a primordial fear of moral and social ones.

All of this is really just saying: Really? A Wall Street sequel? Really?
Fuck that.

Active Child:

Because it was raining in Montreal. Because its raining in San Francisco.