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“The evidence is now in,” David French writes. “The explosive growth in sports gambling is bad for sports, and — most important — it has proved to be bad for the millions of Americans who gamble past the point of prudence and move directly to the point of pain.”
Opinion | ‘I’m Shocked, Shocked to Find That Gambling Is Going On in Here’
The N.B.A. should have known this was coming.
nyti.ms
October 27, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Butler (2025)
Gender is mostly about doing bits
May 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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I saw an article titled "Late Night Monologue Takes On Carney Trump Meeting" from a Canadian news outlet and was annoyed there are no Canadian Late Night Monologues... so I made one.
May 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Following Harvard’s refusal to submit to the Trump Administration’s demands, the government froze more than two billion dollars of grant funds. In a statement, the Administration said “the harassment of Jewish students is intolerable.”
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April 16, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Everybody romanticizing about the heyday of American manufacturing needs to carefully listen to one (1) Bruce Springsteen song.
April 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."

Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
March 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM