In episode 28 of the Hardcore History Addendum podcast, Dan Carlin discusses how one of the important lessons to be learned from the study of human history is to avoid political extremism like the plague. It seems, though, that — as a species — we are doomed to never learn this lesson, especially since we have extremely recent evidence which shows humans do not even have the capacity to avoid an actual plague like the plague.
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Like so many psychological conditions, sociopathy exists on a severity spectrum.
Patric Gagne, Time magazine
Sportico published a great article this month that should really drive home just how much American football dominates television broadcasting right now. NFL Swallows TV Whole, With 93 of Year’s Top 100 Broadcasts details the stranglehold the NFL has on the country’s advertisers. And three of the remaining top 100 were college games! So really 96 out of 100 broadcasts last year were football.
I can’t possibly be the only person who heard that the Golden State coach was headed back to Buckingham Palace and wondered why Steve Kerr was at the coronation.
I do love good bagpipes.
Good Lord, that last paragraph. – via @joshtpm