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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. ...
ts46064 says:
FJM Treatments are guaranteed to be funny.
Desargues says:
Thank you for not taking the first step down that road by writing 'teh funny.' We're all grown-ups here.
Apologies for the absence from the comments section. I be real busy tryin' to finish a paper. Goddam academia.
fuzzbuzz215 says:
Yeah but you still have good points.
daphne says:
second that thought, ts. FJM whichever wingnut has posted the LONGEST lament about health care passage. the longer, the more to skewer.
Pan Sapiens says:
…meanwhile somewehere in the darkest slimiest cesspit of Reactionary Backwardism, Rush Limbaugh howls and bays, the distended nipples of his quivering manboobs lactating in Outrage, as his deformed piglet mutant spawn Glenn Beck suckles on the Hate…
eww. Not funny.
Mark says:
Cheesy (my hairless rat), Dewey, Remy, Harley and Buster told me to tell you that rat stories are always funny. Of course they're all popcorning up and down the hallway!
waldo says:
So, the strategy employed by blocs of bloggers, choosing a truly stupid dumb-wing pundit and mocking the mercilessly doesn't appeal?
waldo says:
mocking *them*
kiki says:
Just talk about pant-shitting. Always does it for me.
J. Dryden says:
Time to boot up a marathon of the 2nd Season of FRISKY DINGO–something to get you back into the groove…
Amanda says:
FJM please.
Jeff says:
I don't know. After the FJM of the Alli bottle, you just can't top it. Nothing feels the same.
Andrew says:
oh oh oh, can you bring the kant drinking game back? That's always been my favorite.