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New York City is where careers thrive and dreams are made, so maybe the question isnt really, Why do we do any of this? but, How could we not? Random Friday thoughts

You can read the dresssorry, #thedressas a metaphor: for our knee-jerk impulse toward partisanship (#TEAMBLUEANDBLACK), for the dynamic nature of observable reality (#TEAMWHITEANDGOLD), for the Internets ability to prove Walt Whitman right yet again, for its ability to prove Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrong yet again, for the fundamental challenge of consensus-building in American democracy, for Platos caves and Russells turtles and Bill Murrays groundhog

As the illumination conditions are impossible to clearly assess in the dress image, people make assumptions about what they are

Athletic and inverted triangle builds Gentlemen with broad shoulders and a narrower waist have what tailors call an inverted triangle physique