A Brooklyn Runner Died

<p>If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I?  -Hillel the Elder, circa 50 BC</p> <p>Astronomy contains no wisdom.</p> <p>A man died at the Brooklyn Half Marathon a few days ago.  Many people are happy to jump to conclusions about it instead of asking some basic questions and doing the boring thing of finding answers.</p> <p>“Previous civilizations have been overthrown from without by the incursion of barbarian hordes... Our barbarians are home products, indoctrinated at the public expense, urged on by the media systematically stage by stage..." -Malcolm Muggeridge, 1980</p>