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Not my sunlight, not my puppy
My friend's mutt, finding happiness and interesting lighting in Durham, N.C.:I'll have a Parker update Tuesday afternoon. Stay tuned.
View ArticleThe bell tolls
Over the weekend, Sears Holdings Corp. started making preparations for winding down the business, after chairman and company killer Eddie Lampert's bid fell apart:The iconic retailer started laying the...
View ArticleDon't air the speech
James Fallows argues that television networks have clear precedents as well as unprecedented reasons not to air President Trump's speech tonight:The challenge for the news media was to “make the...
View ArticleCorrelation is not causation
American diplomats injured in Cuba in 2016 reported hearing strange noises before their symptoms set in. Apparently they heard crickets:[W]hen the biologist Alexander Stubbs heard a recording, uploaded...
View ArticleWarmest oceans ever
The planet's oceans have absorbed most of the extra heat greenhouse gases have prevented leaving the atmosphere, with consequences:“2018 is going to be the warmest year on record for the Earth’s...
View Article10 years ago this hour...
...Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States.Happy anniversary, Barry.
View ArticleThis shouldn't surprise anyone
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation—read: the government—read: us, as we live in a frickin' REPUBLIC—has taken over the Sears Holdings pension fund because, basically, Eddie Lampert has driven it...
View ArticleArticles that annoyed me today
In descending order of pissed-off-making:Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called making Election Day a holiday "a power grab," because more people voting does in fact take power away from the...
View ArticleMy next side-trip from London
...will be to Bletchley Park:The National Museum of Computing is a must-see if you are ever in the UK. It was a short 30ish minute train ride up from London. We spent the whole afternoon there.There is...
View ArticleWho gives a hoot about the game?
Not, I assure you, the Superb Owl:Every year about this time, internet searches for “Super Bowl” go way up. But so do searches for “Superb Owl,” as fast-typing fans put the space in the wrong place.It...
View ArticleWe're #1 again!
At least by one metric, O'Hare has pipped Atlanta and gotten back to the top of the league table for total annual aviation operations:O’Hare saw 903,747 flights in 2018, up 4.2 percent compared with...
View ArticleSears lives to die another day
On Thursday, a court accepted Eddie Lampert's $5.2 bn bid to keep Sears running and himself as its head:Lampert’s purchase, made through his hedge fund, ESL Investments, is intended to keep 425 Sears...
View ArticleHow to end blackmail, the Hamilton approach
Dan Savage (yes, that one), writing in the New York Times, suggests Jeff Bezos should publish all his sexts before the National Enquirer does:Standing up to Pecker was a great start. But by...
View ArticleBoring branding, boring cities
Writing for CityLab, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research fellow Aaron Renn warns cities against falling into the "branding trap:"Here’s a transit-focused video Atlanta made as part of its Amazon...
View ArticleMessing with the wrong guy
A telephone scam artist is going to prison after picking precisely the wrong victim:Keniel Thomas, 29, from Jamaica, pleaded guilty in October to interstate communication with the intent to extort,...
View ArticleAmazon abandons its HQ2 site in New York
The company announced today that it has given up on building out its new headquarters in Queens:[T]he agreement to lure Amazon stirred an intense debate about the use of government incentives to entice...
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All the single ladies
Demographers Richard Florida and Karen King crunched some numbers to determine which metro areas had more single men or single women. Some findings:In absolute numbers, heterosexual men have a...
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More slow-cook attempts
I rubbed these two butts all over and now I'm gettin' 'em hot:We'll see how they taste in 3½ hours. With a few different options for barbecue sauce.
View ArticleWhen did consciousness evolve?
New thinking says longer ago than you might think—with implications throughout the animal kingdom:If [Attention Schema Theory (AST)] is correct, 300 million years of reptilian, avian, and mammalian...
View ArticleTwo stories of North American irrationality
First, William Giraldi, writing in Medium, proclaims "[e]verything you need to know about the mess that is America in 2019 can be explained by our deepening national belief that Bigfoot is...
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