Sweeney Todd, The Little Book of Common Sense Investing

I haven't seen any theatrical productions of Sweeney Todd, so I don't have anything to compare the movie against. Having said that, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. Johnny Depp was fantastic, as was the rest of the cast. All in all, a very good time.

John Bogle's Little Book of Common Sense Investing is probably not aimed at a reader like me. Pretty much, the book boils down to "buy low-expense index funds" and stop throwing money away. Unfortunately, that point is well-made in the first few pages, but the book continues on for another couple hundred. I have enormous respect for Bogle, but I'm already part of the index-fund choir. For those who aren't, this or Daniel Solin's book (but not both) would be a good read.

Atul Gawande article and Whose Freedom?

Atul Gawande has a new article in the New Yorker about using checklists to save lives which is just really amazing.

Also finished reading George Lakoff's Whose Freedom?, another liberal linguistic exploration of how the conservative movement has subjugated popular terminology, in this case freedom and liberty. It's a good book, defining freedom as having uncontested parts and contested shades of grey, and how liberals can defend and advance their definition of freedom. After reading Talking Right though, this felt a little redundant.