Saturday, April 12, 2014

Palm Sunday Weekend Reads

After a long week, it is nice to remember that Lent is almost over.  Here are some interesting links:

How Congress Stayed Wet in the Dry Years of Prohibition - The Atlantic

OSHA Takes a Closer Look at the Most Dangerous Job in America - Pacific Standard

Death on the Farm - Newsweek.  On farmer suicides. A very sad read.


Lab-Grown Vaginas Implanted Successfully in Four Teenagers - Scientific American.  I didn't think I'd ever read that headline.

NSA knew about Heartbleed, exploited it for two years - Salon.  Color me shocked.

Pray for Billy Hamilton - SB Nation

Why We're in a New Gilded Age - Paul Krugman reviewing Picketty's  Capital in the Twenty-First Century. New York Review of Books

Atlanta Stadium for Falcons Prompts Bond Fight - Bloomberg. WTF? 
Home Depot Inc. co-founder Arthur Blank, having bought the Atlanta Falcons, is getting help from the city to build a $1.2 billion football stadium to replace a venue that a skeptic noted is barely older than Miley Cyrus.
The billionaire said his ambition to bring another Super Bowl to town rides on replacing the Georgia Dome, which opened in 1992, with funds including $200 million in taxpayer money.
Are you fucking kidding me?

The Heartbreaking First Legal gay Marriage in Indiana - Slate

A Whole New Ballgame - New York Times.  Baseball from unique angles.

Bars showing Pacquiao- Bradley fight must pay big - or else - LA Times.  Pay-per-view is killing boxing

How 'Choose Your Own Adventure' was born - Marketplace.  Loved those books.

How lobbying dollars prop up pyramid schemes - The Verge.  Herbalife and Amway.  I would guess AdvoCare too. However, it might not be helping Herbalife:  Herbalife Probed by Investigators - WSJ

Miller Samuel, via Ritholtz

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