Summer’s nearly over, but there are plenty of oddball links to carry you through another week! Just click more!
Did Hillary Clinton run the worst campaign since, um, John Kerry?
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I had no idea Ruth’s Chris originated in New Orleans. I do know that they cheat by adding the butter late for that sizzling noise when they bring you your steak.
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No better headline this week than Gowanus, Where Irony Meets Hope.
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But Pimp My Prefab comes close.
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This one’s pretty good, too. (But combine it with this concept and you have a-w-e-s-o-m-e.)
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Dag. I thought Star Wars died after The Phantom Menace. (No, I never saw Send in the Clones or the last one.)
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Frankly, I didn’t even know Australians could read.
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Another beautiful photo discovered by Shorpy.
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Dan Drezner has a neat post on trends in authoritarian capitalist states, a concept I was interested in but didn’t have a name for until I saw an article in Foreign Affairs on it last year by Azar Gat, who has the coolest name in this week’s UR.
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New Jersey: a state of mind and/or a state of ruin. (And having too many independent newspapers in the state has led to a lack of coverage, Gov. Corzine?)
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Greater returns and less risk! What the opposite of smart?
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Michael Bierut on the new movie about Philippe Petit? What’s not to love? (My own Petit-post c.2005 is over here.)