Given that our government is run by a fool who should be on some serious ADHD meds, it is nearly impossible to follow what is going on in Washington as it wildly careens from one insane policy to another every 6–12 hours. Thus, a couple of the articles I’m linking to below were out-of-date almost as soon as they were published. That doesn’t mean they aren’t still worth reading, though.
These are crazy times. Thus, it seems totally appropriate that one of the best breakdowns of our country’s ludicrous new trade policy comes from a writer whose primary focus is sports.
When I go to the store and buy something, I incur a trade deficit with the store, but most of the time I don’t feel like I got ripped off. The store got my money, I got something I wanted, everybody wins. But Trump—and this may be a window into how he himself does business—seems to see every buyer as a mark and every seller as a con artist. If we’re buying more from them than they are from us, we must be the suckers, and if we’re the suckers, we need to do whatever we can to reverse the imbalance and resume our rightful place as the alpha grifters of the world.
Four Totally Logical, Sensible, Legit Explanations for Trump’s Tariff Plan
This is a more serious look at why “Bringing Manufacturing Back to America!” is far more difficult than any politician will ever admit.
A ‘US-Made iPhone’ Is Pure Fantasy
There needs to be a Things Are Generally Fucked Up chart in here, too.
30 Charts That Show How Covid Changed Everything
Now for something completely different, it’s not every day I link to The Curling News. You know it’s going to be a doozy when I do.
This is, hands down, the worst thing I ever seen or heard of in my 42 years in this sport.
As a result, it’s the nightmare scenario: a player or players in the year 2025 who are deciding to blatantly cheat, and break the rules, because they think they can get away with it.
OK, maybe that’s not so different from what’s going on in the rest of the world after all.
China Caught Cheating in Curling
I’ve never been a huge Air Jordan guy, I haven’t owned a pair of true Jordans since the originals,[1] but for some reason I always read articles ranking the various editions. For the record, I would rank them 3, 4, 1, and don’t care after that.
Air Jordan power rankings: Which shoe is tops as the brand celebrates 40 years?
I know several of my friends are like me, and will have a kid traveling in Europe sometime over the next 12 months. This isn’t super useful for communicating, but is a fun tool to see how words change as you cross borders.
- I do currently own a pair of Russell Westbrook’s Jordan One Take 4’s that I got on sale for like $75 a year ago to wear as my AAU dad kicks. Russ still wears them sometimes. But they are not actually Air Jordans. ↩
