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It's a studiously apolitical book but Marc Levinson's THE BOX (2016), a detailed history of containerized shipping, is a really great way to understand how the global supply chain works - and how terrifyingly precarious it is.
Those store shelves could be empty a *lot* more quickly than many people think.
press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691170817/the-box?srsltid=AfmBOoqXsS0CLVSoje_8d4RVV7xiLFh... ...
"There's more to life than being able to buy cheap garbage," sagely intones your friend from high school who became homicidally angry and had a complete mental breakdown from which he has never recovered because he couldn't go to big box stores and chain restaurants for 3 weeks in 2020. ...
Mike Q says:
If the pound is a secret terrorist handshake, than I wonder what the hell this means:
http://tinyurl.com/5ul9jw
I can't help but look at Fox in the same way I see Cartoon Network. I never watch either (mainly because I don't have TV and, if I did, wouldn't watch it anyway). But at the off chance I pass one of these networks I either shake my head at how mind numbing it is or laugh hysterically at the pure stupidity of what I am seeing.
BK says:
Good post Ed… I noticed on msn.com yesterday that one of the most popular searches on the internets yesterday was something along the lines of "Obama fistbump."
While fox news is certainly worthy of most every criticism raised, at some level it's a sad commentary on the American public that this station ever had a hay-day. It's never been news, and yet it was the primary source of information for a considerable amount of people.
Pick on Fox, but let's not leave several million Americans off the hook for this one too…
Samantha says:
I think you're right about Hill parodying her own network. The look on her face as she said it, the fact that she never explained herself, and the sheer absurdity of the topic itself make me think that must have been what was going on. God help us if not.