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Author: Paul Campos

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Ted Williams’s last game

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On September 20, 2023
Here's a bit of cultural arcana that illustrates how much the media ecosystem has changed over the past six decades. When Ted Williams played the final game of his career at Fenway Park on September 28, 1960, there were only 10,454 people in the stands....

Dead money

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On September 20, 2023

Submitted without further comment: Eric Clapton performed at a fundraiser for presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a private estate in Brentwood near Los Angeles. The event raised $2.2 million for Kennedy:.

When legal argument doesn’t help

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On September 18, 2023
Good comment from MIJ about the 14.3 disqualification argument: Stipulate that The 14th Amendment applies. Assume also that this works it's way through the courts in a timely manner and that SCOTUS upholds disqualification, both very big assumptions.What's the reaction? Can anyone believe that Republicans...

Labor and value

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On September 16, 2023

The new party of the working class everybody: https://twitter.com/evamckend/status/1702710501195583580 It's invariably people who don't have real jobs who talk about how important it is for people to work. We're nearly.

Mitt Romney

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On September 14, 2023

A good consequence of Mitt Romney's retirement from the Senate is that he has decided to let loose his quasi-aristocratic ire against Donald Trump (who Romney of course carefully cultivated.

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Ponzi as vocation

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On September 12, 2023
This amazing glimpse into the world of crypto, from a forthcoming book on the subject, needs to be read to be believed. Here is Sam Bankman-Fried, describing in the most straightforward manner possible how this whole world is just a bunch of barely disguised Ponzi...

But his birth certificate

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On September 12, 2023

I think this is right, and it's going to be a big problem over the next year: https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1701301644095291398 https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1701302885009522966 This situation is now spiraling into a typically bizarre meta-narrative, in.

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