Some PROFESSIONAL NEWS: I'm writing a book for ! It's called 99% PERSPIRATION and it's about the enormous role of work in American life. I hope you'll save a space for it on your shelves!
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Regional accents are close to extinction within this generation, when we find a young specimen in the wild it's like spotting a bald eagle in central park
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A neighbor in NE Philly describes what it was like to wake up to the confusion just outside his door after a portion of I-95 collapsed just a few blocks from him.
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Source: The Heat's mascot, Burnie, had to go to the ER last night after a mid-game bit with former UFC champ Conor McGregor appears to have gone too far. More here, at
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This is basically the bare minimum response we should be expecting right now from our elected officials, & only Romney, among the entire GOP, seems able to clear the bar.
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Romney says Trump "brought these charges upon himself"
“By all appearances, the Justice Department and special counsel have exercised due care, affording Mr. Trump the time and opportunity to avoid charges that would not generally have been afforded to others."
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I miss Bloomberg who in times like these would tell us to stay in our in-apartment humidors for safety
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The Two Americas
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Anyone know where I can find an updated Restaurant/QSR & Soda served graphic or is this still accurate ? Believe this was from 2017 or 2018 cc @davidhenkes
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Supposed to interview a demographer about mobility, but he's never in his office when we're supposed to talk. I can't tell if this is a bit or not.
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Here's my review of an important new book from Henry Grabar, who's pulled off a minor miracle: He tells lively stories about the human cost of... parking.
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happy National Donut Day, enjoy some data about where our donut shops are and why certain brands dominate regions of the U.S.
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Rondo Blanco starts for the Astros tonight. He was no big bonus kid out of the Dominican. When he signed, he was 23 and working in a D.R. car wash
Chick-Fil-A pledges to do the absolute bare minimum DEI and it’s too woke.
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R.I.P Chick-Fil-A
You will be missed.
chick-fil-a.com/dei
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**Fascinating** dive into how dollar stores beget food deserts and often charge more than traditional grocers capitalbnews.org/dollar-stores- via
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Biden is presiding over one of the largest reductions in wage inequality, and increases in real wages for low-income workers, in modern U.S. history. (And the public writ large doesn't seem particularly enthused) politico.com/news/2023/05/2
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It was a true pleasure to read and review ’s BUILT FROM THE FIRE for . A truly outstanding work.
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Young people might not believe me but 15 years ago that there were like, 8 different cold drinks, total. Maybe 12 if you were somewhere fancy. Anyone over the age of 35 walking in the beverage aisle these days is like Boris Yeltsin when he first visited an American supermarket
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When everything tries to pass the shelf test so NOTHING passes the shelf test…y’all CPG brands need to stop hiring the same designers & using the same brands for design inspo
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When I tell you that 's on James Comey's attempt to reinvent himself as a mystery novelist is the smartest, most keenly-observed, and, surprisingly, funniest thing you'll read this weekend I mean it!
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They spent untold millions renovating LaGuardia and now the soda default is Pepsi. Tear it down, folks.
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👎👎“Changes also affect Oscar Mayer’s Wiener Whistles, which are now Frank Whistles, and Hotdogger drivers, who will be referred to as Frankfurters…Frankmobiles will dole out coupons for a free pack of hot dogs to customers who have Frank in their name.”
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"You see a homeless person in Los Angeles; an American says, What did that person do? You see a homeless person in France; a French person says, What did the state do? How did the state fail them?"
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Canada's 30yr Stanley Cup drought drags on
fast changing fast food industry with AI on the menu
tells us about a $228,000 bottle of scotch
+Stellantis ups the subsidy ante, and more
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76ers didn’t bring passion to Game 7, as promised, and didn’t bring jobs to Camden, as promised. “We don’t get nothing from them being here,” he said about the Sixers.“They could at least clean up the trash on the street near us & help out with all that $”
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Just went to try Shake Shack’s new Veggie Burger. It’s +$2 from a basic Shack Burger and +90 calories from a Big Mac. For all that, it has real vegetables and is very good. All glory goes to the Pooch-ini, which Arby loved.
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Making sign The Phoenix Economy twice because he’d already signed every copy for sale in Manhattan.
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Wrote about Tony Hsieh — the Zappos guy — all those myths that tech CEOs were telling about themselves back in the aughts, and how you build a success story around someone who just got lucky a lot.
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The Battle of Yorktown
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