How much of a pig is Harvey Weinstein? This much: When having dinner with women to, um, discuss projects, he would overrule the woman's beverage request if to wasn't for an alcoholic beverage. He'd just tell the server, "Bring her what I'm telling you to bring her." One particular LA-area restaurant's management told its wait staff to do whatever Mr. Weinstein requested.
Let's take a break from the toxic stuff and check out something ennobling. This piece at NRO by Bruce Buff and Robert Spitzer, on how we ought to take a moment at Halloween time to reflect on the fact that we have souls, has two big takeaways:
1.) No configuration of matter, however sophisticated, can explain what makes the human being unique among the world's living things, and
2.) We live forever, which means our moment-to-moment choices have eternal consequences.
Megan McArdle at Bloomberg says that during this year's open enrollment period, a lot of healthy folks are going to look at the jump in plan premiums and decide to opt out of the "A"CA.
Simon Constable at PJ Media says that one big reason Catalonia has declared its independence from Spain is that it is faring relatively well compared to Spain overall, which was in such bad shape a few years ago it instituted an austerity program, to which Catalonia has said, "no thanks." Several other EU countries have similar situations. Regions within them harbor a rising sentiment along the lines of, "Why should we have to kowtow to Brussels's demands? We're doing okay." Upshot: There could well be more such declarations of independence.
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