"When you’re waiting for a bus to your second job while looking at photos of teenagers taking a helicopter to the Hamptons, it might be hard to hold on to the old idea of American meritocracy, or believe that the wealthy really are better than you."
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The longest pedestrian suspension bridge in North America has been transformed into a 680-foot tunnel of Christmas lights overlooking the Smoky Mountains https://t.co/3R1TU2GgiE
2016 Drake: “Why you gotta fight with me at Cheesecake? You know I love to go there” (Child’s Play).
2019 Drake: “To me Benihana is pigeon food” (Omertà)
Which got me thinking. Drake has some contradicting taste buds. So I wrote about it. Check it out.
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In Opinion
Tim Wu writes, “What the United States desperately needs is a vision of economic health more consistent with what we know makes life worth living” https://t.co/eLJs8K5l01
Absolutely awful service from @FedEx. Express shipped package at a nearby facility just sitting there but I’m not “allowed” to pick it up until tomorrow. What happened to going above and beyond, not just meeting deadlines but beating them. Smh.
Dan Wetzel nails it. Why are basketball players treated so differently? Because they are revenue generating ASSETS. These rules are not to protect the athlete. https://t.co/c2nz5XUNCB
“We die. That may be the meaning of life,” Toni Morrison said in 1993. “But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” @sophieGG remembers the author, who passed away yesterday at the age of 88: https://t.co/00R2iBvVmo
President Trump: "The Continental Army suffered a bitter winner at Valley Forge, found glory across the waters of the Delaware and seized victory from Cornwallis of Yorktown. Our Army manned the air, it ran the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do."
never using @hotelsdotcom again... have been trying to cancel a reservation for hours only to be told the system is down for an hour, then updating for another hour, now an additional four hours. #dobetter