Language uses the word solitude to refer to the glory of being alone, 
and the word loneliness, 
to refer to the pain of being alone. - Anon.

This sums up how I did in law school.

what's the point of corporations?

The difference between an incidental humanitarian expenditure of corporate funds for the benefit of the employees, like the building of a hospital for their use and the employment of agencies for the betterment of their condition, and a general purpose and plan to benefit mankind at the expense of others, is obvious. There should be no confusion (of which there is evidence) of the duties which Mr. Ford conceives that he and the stockholders owe to the general public and the duties which in law he and his codirectors owe to protesting, minority stockholders. A business corporation is organized and carried on primarily for the profit of the stockholders. The powers of the directors are to be employed for that end. The discretion of directors is to be exercised in the choice of means to attain that end, and does not extend to a change in the end itself, to the reduction of profits, or to the nondistribution of profits among stockholders in order to devote them to other purposes. Dodge v. Ford, , 237 N.E. 2d. 776 (Ill.App. 1968)

David looked up and saw the Angel of the Lord standing between Heaven and Earth, with a drawn sword in his hand extending over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in
sackcloth, fell face-down. 1 Chronicles 21: 16

For Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection shall be its own punishment. Augustine, Confessions

Lord make me aware of the terrible acts of judgment that hang, as if suspended in air, waiting to be unleashed into the circumstances I find myself in. Please make me aware of the significance of those moments and make me aware of my place in the middle of it all. Help me connect effects with their causes. Help me see that it's my sin that has returned to punish me, so that I know I need to turn, and what I need to turn from.

Can Corporations Murder?

Justice Stephen G. Breyer: And the principle that here would apply is what I said, Pirates, Incorporated.

Do you think in the 18th century if they'd brought Pirates, Incorporated, and we get all their gold, and Blackbeard gets up and he says, oh, it isn't me; it's the corporation -- do you think that they would have then said: Oh, I see, it's a corporation. Good-bye. Go home.

[Laughter]

Ms Sullivan: --Justice Breyer, yes, the corporation would not be liable.

Justice Stephen G. Breyer: All right. Well, what source have you--

Ms Sullivan: The corporation would not be liable.

- Transcript from Oral Argument of Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum.

David was smug.

There's a part of David's face that's always shaded, always pointed away from the reader.

He rejects Saul's firstborn daughter by appealing to his modest roots, "Who am I, and what is my family or my father's clan that I should become the king's son-in-law?" (18:18).

David is feigning modesty.

He later takes Michal, Saul's younger girl when Saul offers her to whomever pays him in "100 Philistine foreskins." David has bloodlust. He seizes the challenge for Michal's hand, kills a hundred Philistines and circumcises their dead corpses for her hand in marriage.

Michal is little more than a trophy that he soon disposes of. He bags other women he stumbles into (Abigail, Bathsheba, Ahinoam). Surely, this was a thorn in Michal's side. A thorn that, despite her attempts to suppress it, would pinch and twist through her husband's military campaigns and the songs that the women sang of him.

Some time later, after Saul had died, David danced and "exposed himself" (allegedly to praise the Lord for not killing an ark-bearer), the thorn twisted in her side, and when she got a moment alone with him, Michal quipped sarcastically, "How the king of  Israel honored himself today!" Yeah, you might think David's reply, that he was "dancing before the Lord", was God-honoring. But what did he say after that? "I was dancing before the Lord who chose me over your father..." He is speaking to a girl whose father died in combat and who chose David as her husband (who, for all David knew, did so not vindictively). There's just something diabolically gleeful about his reply here.

When Achish offered him solace from Saul's hunting men, David says, in a style of groveling that is becoming all too familiar, "If I have found favor with you, let me be given a place in one of the outlying towns, so I can live there. Why should your servant live in the royal city with you?" Achish is a Philistine. For all his life David was fighting the Philistines. In fact, he is carrying the very same sword that he used to behead Goliath the Philistine. And here, he grovels at Achish's feet and calls himself his servant. His duplicity is not arbitrary. To the contrary, it's expedient. He picks an outlying town to inhabit. A place less likely to be raided by Saul's men than Achish's loft.

There's just something dark about him. Something not told in the official story about David. 

Dad finally got laid off. Last day sometime in the end of June. World on edge.