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“The honor of the political leader, of the leading statesman, however, lies precisely in an exclusive personal responsibility for what he does, a responsibility he cannot and must not reject or transfer. It is in the nature of officials of high moral standing to be poor politicians, and above all, in the political sense of the word, to be irresponsible politicians.” – Max Weber, Politics As A Vocation

And there you have it, folks. The difference between Eddard Stark and Roose Bolton, theorized and formulated long before George R.R. Martin was a squalling baby. Oh, to be a fly on the wall of Winterfell!

In the shower this morning, I was musing over the fact that I really wanted to watch Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants tonight, with Sarah or Emilie or somebody.

Two nights ago, I'd really wanted to watch it on Thursday night with Sarah, but she ended up going to Airplane, which was being shown in the lounge. We had been deciding and deliberating, if Katie wanted to come, and if Sarah would finish her essay first, when Katie came out of the room holding Airplane. When she said hi and asked what we were going to do this evening, Sarah and I said at the same time, "Actually..." and trailed off, and looked at each other.

At that moment in the shower, I stopped conditioning my hair, and thought to myself, "NASH EQUILIBRIUM POINT! YES! It's true! They do exist in any game!"

It was pretty amazing, since I'd finished A Beautiful Mind, the biography which inspired the movie, by Sylvia Nasar. Though game theory is by no means a field of study I'm going to pursue, it kept racing through my mind, while reading Schmitt and Dewey this quarter, and other issues too.

I love it when things like this pop up in real life. It makes the possibility that I have whooping cough soooo much better. (Yeah, it's true. This cough has been here for three days now, and several people independently commented that it sounded worse than yesterday. I really don't want it to be whooping cough, because then I would've already infected a ton of the floor, my classes, the people at Java Jive... the list goes on. At least I didn't go to work, or a bunch of high schoolers would have it too.) Off to get dressed and go to brunch, because food will not wait forever.