Month: June 2014

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A Plague of Locusts

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On June 5, 2014
In a plot line rejected in favor of the airplane in Season 2 of Breaking Bad because the metaphor was too heavy-handed, here is the most Albuquerque story of all time: According to The National Weather Service, the worst infestation of grasshoppers to hit Albuquerque in twenty years is so dense that it’s showing up […]
The group draws for Brazil 2014, which starts next week, are not quite balanced, and I’m writing my usual ill-advised predictions for the group stages. As I wrote in December, there was much whining in England, but the USMNT has by most quantitative measures the most difficult group in the tournament. Indeed, the strengths of the […]

The Finals

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On June 4, 2014

I’m tempted to use my unprecedented and almost certainly never-to-be-repeated 12-2 prediction record so far to pick an upset.  As I said after the last round, the Rangers are a touch better res

Linkin’ Around

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On June 4, 2014
Some Wednesday links for you… Ross could correctly blame misogyny for the shootings, but he won’t Douthat. No, instead he’ll hem and haw and clutch his pearls and talk about our modern libertine ways. The answer for Ross is always more repression. And it’s sad because there’s a nugget of a good point in his […]

The New Gilded Age

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On June 4, 2014
Peter Van Buren provides an absolutely outstanding rundown of the New Gilded Age, even if he doesn’t use the term. An excerpt to remind you of the glories of 21st century America: Last year eight Americans—the four Waltons of Walmart fame, the two Koch brothers, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett—made more money than 3.6 million […]
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