Links for August 4
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- Der Spiegel has a piece on Aldi supermarkets and the reclusive brothers who run them. One of the brothers, Theo Albrecht, died last week. (Aldi also owns Trader Joe’s.)
- George Packer explains how the Senate works these days. Here’s the short version: the Senate is a joke.
- I believed for a long time that many of the things that suck about America were mitigated by the fact that we led the world in income mobility. Turns out, we do not.
- You can find me on Rdio.
- New York mayor Michael Bloomberg was my hero yesterday.
- Blizzard is going to be monitoring a certain location on a certain server in World of Warcraft due to a pattern of unsavory behavior.
- If you haven’t seen the Kanye West/New Yorker cartoon mashup, go look right now.
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