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\u201312 hours. Thus, a couple of the articles I\u2019m linking to below were out-of-date almost as soon as they were published. That doesn\u2019t mean they aren\u2019t still worth reading, though.<\/p>\n
These are crazy times. Thus, it seems totally appropriate that one of the best breakdowns of our country\u2019s ludicrous new trade policy comes from a writer whose primary focus is sports.<\/p>\n
When I go to the store and buy something, I incur a trade deficit with the store, but most of the time I don\u2019t feel like I got ripped off. The store got my money, I got something I wanted, everybody wins. But Trump\u2014and this may be a window into how he himself does business\u2014seems to see every buyer as a mark and every seller as a con artist. If we\u2019re buying more from them than they are from us, we must be the suckers, and if we\u2019re 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Four Totally Logical, Sensible, Legit Explanations for Trump\u2019s Tariff Plan<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThis is a more serious look at why \u201cBringing Manufacturing Back to America!\u201d is far more difficult than any politician will ever admit.<\/p>\n
A \u2018US-Made iPhone\u2019 Is Pure Fantasy<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThere needs to be a Things Are Generally Fucked Up chart in here, too.<\/p>\n
30 Charts That Show How Covid Changed Everything<\/a><\/p>\n
\nNow for something completely different, it\u2019s not every day I link to The Curling News. You know it\u2019s going to be a doozy when I do.<\/p>\n
This is, hands down, the worst thing I ever seen or heard of in my 42 years in this sport.<\/p>\n
As a result, it\u2019s 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
OK, maybe that\u2019s not so different from what\u2019s going on in the rest of the world after all.<\/p>\n
China Caught Cheating in Curling<\/a><\/p>\n
\nI\u2019ve never been a huge Air Jordan guy, I haven\u2019t owned a pair of true Jordans since the originals,[1]<\/a> but for some reason I always read articles ranking the various editions. For the record, I would rank them 3, 4, 1, and don\u2019t care after that.<\/p>\n
Air Jordan power rankings: Which shoe is tops as the brand celebrates 40 years?<\/a><\/p>\n
\nI know several of my friends are like me, and will have a kid traveling in Europe sometime over the next 12 months. This isn\u2019t super useful for communicating, but is a fun tool to see how words change as you cross borders.<\/p>\n
European word translator<\/a><\/p>\n
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- I do currently own a pair of Russell Westbrook\u2019s Jordan One Take 4\u2019s<\/a> 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. \u00a0\u21a9<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\u201312 hours. Thus, a couple of the articles I\u2019m linking to below were out-of-date almost as soon as they were published. That doesn\u2019t mean they aren\u2019t still worth reading, though. These are crazy times. Thus, it seems totally appropriate that one of the best breakdowns of our country\u2019s 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\u2019t feel like I got ripped off. The store got my money, I got something I wanted, everybody wins. But Trump\u2014and this may be a window into how he himself does business\u2014seems to see every buyer as a mark and every seller as a con artist. If we\u2019re buying more from them than they are from us, we must be the suckers, and if we\u2019re 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\u2019s Tariff Plan This is a more serious look at why \u201cBringing Manufacturing Back to America!\u201d is far more difficult than any politician will ever admit. A \u2018US-Made iPhone\u2019 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\u2019s not every day I link to The Curling News. You know it\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s not so different from what\u2019s going on in the rest of the world after all. China Caught Cheating in Curling I\u2019ve never been a huge Air Jordan guy, I haven\u2019t 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\u2019t 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\u2019t super useful for communicating, but is a fun tool to see how words change as you cross borders. European word translator I do currently own a pair of Russell Westbrook\u2019s Jordan One Take 4\u2019s 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. \u00a0\u21a9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-16220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16222,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16220\/revisions\/16222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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