At College Football Games, Student Sections Likely To Have Empty Seats - Wall Street Journal
The Glue - Grantland. On Phil Hartman's key role at Saturday Night Live. Watching The Simpsons marathon, Hartman's characters are ever-present in the prime era of that show.
DOJ adds divestiture Tyson's Hillshire purchase - PORK network. "Mergers, acquisitions and consolidation in the meat packing and processing sector typically raises concerns over loss of competition in the market, and in this case, the DOJ believes that if Tyson acquires Hillshire and retains Heinold Hog Markets, there would indeed be a significant loss of competition for purchases of sows from farmers, with the combined companies accounting for about one-third of all sow purchases" A third?
Conservatives Learn To Love Infrastructure - Barry Ritholtz
The Boy with Half a Brain - Indianapolis Monthly. A boy and his parents who decide to have a portion of his brain surgically removed to try to end his seizures.
Ode to a F*cked Generation - Medium
Radical New Theory Could Kill the Multiverse Theory - Wired. Way beyond me.
A twofer for Labor Day: Why Have U.S. Corporations Become Such Skinflints - LA Times, and In corporations, it is owner-take-all - Washington Post. It is bad enough that most capital investment has gone to labor-saving technology, decreasing labor demand and devaluing labor, and then profits are overly allocated to capital, but then capital income is taxed at a lower rate than labor. That is why we are so fucked.
Losing Ground: Southeast Louisiana is Disappearing, Quickly - Scientific American
America's coal heartland is in economic freefall, but only the most desperate are fleeing - Washington Post
38 Maps that explain the global economy - Vox (h/t Kaye). I especially like the hog population, alcohol consumption and open defecation maps.
Mapping Migration in the United States - The Upshot. See also, The Growing Blue-State Diaspora.
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