Cognitive Dissonance & The Flight From Reality

Plus: Small Towns, Outsiders, and Insiders

Kale Zelden enjoying a pre-man-cold cocktail in Budapest

Good morning. I hadn’t expected to write until later, but Kale fell ill in Esztergom with a rotten man-cold — and if you are a man who has ever had a cold, you know that it’s basically nasal Ebola — so we took the train back to Budapest early. Poor guy has a long day of flying back home tomorrow, a…