“Truth with malice in it.” So wrote Herman Melville. Truth with malice in it is now at the heart of our compulsions and obsessions that defy logic, or any rational thought. I worry about fatigue. I viewed a movie recently that obliquely placed some of this in perspective -- In the Heart of the Sea. In sports, free agent contracts, especially baseball, are slow in evolving, amid threats of a walkout midseason.
