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Talent is not scarce

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On April 1, 2019
The title of this post is taken from something Bill James wrote in one of the first Baseball Abstracts. In the context of competitive athletics, where ability and performance can be measured more or less objectively, the claim that talent isn't scarce is very counter-intuitive,...

$2.00 A Day

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On March 27, 2019

Scott's latest posts on performative cruelty and Trumpism/Republicanism (a distinction increasingly without a difference) reminded me that I've been meaning to write about Kathryn Edin's and Luke Shaefer's great ethnography.

MC 800-ft IDW

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On March 22, 2019

An interesting and disturbing portrait of Joe Rogan, dazed and confused podcaster of the Intellectual Dark Web, aka Reactionary Centrists 'R Us: As a podcaster, the 51-year-old Rogan is basically.

Burning a witch

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On March 21, 2019

Commenter Random pointed out something yesterday that's worth pondering further: One of the great mysteries to me is how thorough and complete the press has been in erasing every single.

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