Not just a gambler, he cheated too: A fan proves that Pete Rose corked his bats during his quest to become baseball’s all-time hitter. This ESPN column from last summer tries to come to terms with the reality that Charlie Hustle will never be in the Hall of Fame, but in light of this article it’s hard to justify any sympathy at all.
I was moved by this story at Salon by musician John Manchester, who is the son of the late historian William Manchester. William Manchester, who died in 2004, left instructions that his children should build a coffin for him by hand, and in this article his son writes about not just trying to figure out how to do it, but figuring out why his father wanted them to do it.
From the department of “Capitalism Destroys Everything”, this post at 3Quarks Daily by Jeff Strabone makes an observation that should seem obvious but apparently isn’t to a lot of people: the insatiable juggernaut of capitalism compels corporations to do anything and everything they can get away with under the letter of the law in order to turn a profit, so if you want to rein them in, your only recourse is to regulate the motherlovin’ shit out of them. The folly of Reaganism is the single most destructive thing that happened to the United States in the 20th Century, though it has taken these last 30 years to really bear fruit. This may be our last chance to reverse Reaganism once and for all.
The gift that keeps on giving: this Fast Company article documents the ongoing health nightmares affecting people who helped clean up the Exxon Valdez oil spill 21 years agom which are already beginning to show up in workers cleaning up along the Gulf Coast. So far the human death toll from this incident is still 11, but how many more lives will it eventually claim.
