This may be much ado about nothing, but in Pittsburgh, perception is a big thing. We don't want to lose a hockey team, and we don't want to lose a corporate headquarters.

Hypothetically, if the headquarters officially has been moved to New York, perhaps it has some tax implications. Beyond that, there is the perception, 'What's wrong with Pittsburgh?' If it's just a few people, what's the point? Why do it at all?

They ought to be willing to jump through hoops to get that deal.

Why is the public becoming an investor in luxury condos and a luxury hotel? That defies logic. We don't need more hotels and more office space in a market that's over-saturated with hotel rooms and office space. For taxpayers to be subsidizing this is foolhardy.

Like to hear a vampire folk tale?" Sarasti asked.

"Vampires have folk tales?"

He took it for a yes. "A laser is assigned to find the darkness. Since it lives in a room without doors, or windows, or any other source of light, it thinks this will be easy. But everywhere it turns it sees brightness. Every wall, every piece of furniture it points at is brightly lit. Eventually it concludes there is no darkness, that light is everywhere.

Perception does not define who we are, but it does define where we are limited, and where we are not yet free.