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https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/six-flags-dining-pass Dylan’s first bite into a turkey hotdog called the “Thanksgiving Dog” felt nothing short of life-changing. “It was amazing,” he says. “It’s a turkey dog topped with cranberry sauce, stuffing and a slathering of mayonnaise, which I know sounds awful, but it was so good. I ended up eating way too many of them, and now I can’t even smell turke...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: This week Zac and Don discuss their favorite exchanges from a recent Conversations with Tyler podcast.  During the podcast Professor Tyler Cowen interviewed General Stanley McChrystal.  You can listen to the podcast episode here: https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/stanley-mcchrystal/   Zac and Don use Professor Cowen's podcast to talk about different aspects...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: Work isn’t just our livelihood. It can be a source of structure, belonging and meaning in our lives. But that doesn’t mean our jobs should dictate how we spend most of our waking hours. For several generations, we’ve organized our lives around our work. Our jobs have determined where we make our homes, when we see our families and what we can squeeze in during our dow...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: A school board in northern Michigan plans to send a protest over sportsmanship following a soccer player's 16-goal record-setting game against a winless team. The backlash over Kevin Hubbell's performance continued Monday night at a meeting of the Kingsley board. Members didn't take a formal vote, but there was clear support for sending a letter to the Benzie Central...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: In my experience, if you see a CEO chasing press, that person’s company is probably headed for trouble. The energy spent burnish­ing your image could almost always be better spent managing your people, ferreting out problems, clearing obstacles, honing processes, talking to customers, selecting vendors, recruiting team members and working on new initiatives. With Manh...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: The most elementary tenet of economics is the relationship between supply, demand, and prices. If there's suddenly less of something that a lot of people want, it's going to get more expensive. At the same time, having competition in the marketplace encourages suppliers to increase supply and lower prices in order to win a larger share of buyers in the market. Indeed,...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: For Benjamin, the very possession of these books formed his identity as a reader, writer, and human being — even if he hadn’t read all of them. They sat proudly on his shelves as symbols, representing the knowledge that he still aspired to gain or the cities he had traveled, where he encountered a book in a previously unknown shop. Collecting books was his way of inte...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: In Phoenix, where a drought has lasted for 27 years so far, one source of water—the Colorado River—may soon dry up. The city is also getting hotter, with a record number of days over 110 degrees Fahrenheit in 2020. At the same time, the population continues to expand. Over the last decade, Phoenix grew faster than any other American city, and Arizona was one of the fa...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: The chief executive of Domino's Pizza has complained that the company can’t hire enough drivers.  Lyft and Uber claim to have a similar problem.  A McDonald's franchise in Florida offered $50 to anybody willing to show up for an interview.  And some fast-food outlets have hung signs in their windows saying, "No one wants to work anymore."  The idea that the United Sta...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: Men are abandoning higher education in such numbers that they now trail female college students by record levels. At the close of the 2020-21 academic year, women made up 59.5% of college students, an all-time high, and men 40.5%, according to enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse, a nonprofit research group. U.S. colleges and universities had 1.5 mi...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: It’s not just individual patients who are in the dark,” said Martin Gaynor, a Carnegie Mellon economist who studies health pricing. “Employers are in the dark. Governments are in the dark. It’s just astonishing how deeply ignorant we are about these prices.” This paragraph comes from the New York Times in an article titled: "Hospitals and Insurers Didn't Want You to S...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: If the U.S. government was caught up short by the dramatic denouement of its 20-year war in Afghanistan, viewers of the three major networks must have been taken entirely by surprise. Out of a combined 14,000-plus minutes of the national evening news broadcast on CBS, ABC, and NBC last year, a grand total of five minutes were devoted to Afghanistan, according to Andre...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: It sucks that college sports over the past decade-plus has chosen to give up what makes it special. I’m not talking about amateurism — the fact that players can now make money is long overdue. I’m talking about the regional flair, the communities, the charm and the history. There’s a connection with alumni and your opponent. The vast majority of us care more about our...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: Almost every teacher I know has noticed the same sinister reality this summer: Kids have come back to the classroom. But the classroom hasn’t come back to the kids. Far from it. More to the point, they are back, they are sitting at their desks, but in many ways they now embody the detached, lifeless malaise of a hipster zombie incapable of showing the slightest patina...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: Survivalist school instructors across the country say there has been an increasing interest in their wilderness and urban-disaster preparedness courses from Americans worried about climate change . As rising temperatures bring more wildfires , droughts and destructive storms , those types of courses are no longer the domain of campers and hunters. One of these schools...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: "There seems to be an urge to do things differently, to rear young men without the same certainties and biases that previously we absorbed by rote. Mine’s not the first generation of parents to be thinking about all this, and fretfully. In the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, the 00s, there were many mothers and some fathers who looked at each other and asked: what oug...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: "This school would probably not attract many of today’s Ivy League elite. But they are not the ones who require better and cheaper alternatives. It is striking how most major institutions of higher learning are many decades or centuries old, and how reluctant they are to change their models or to become significantly more inclusive. Am I sure that my “fantasy universi...

The Best Paragraph I’ve Read: Worsley, in trying to cross Antarctica on his own, had embarked on a mission that exceeded his body’s capacity, and no amount of mental strength and tenacity could change that calculation. But if that’s true, then why is death by endurance so rare?  Why don’t Olympic marathoners and Channel swimmers and Appalachian Trail hikers keel over on a regular basis?&...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: "We estimate that a typical classroom in the PPSD is interrupted more than 2,000 times per year and that these interruptions and the disruptions they cause result in the loss of between 10 and 20 days of instructional time. Several findings suggest that there exists substantial scope for reducing interruptions. Administrators appear to systematically underestimate the...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: "Four waffles down. Been here for 1.5 hours, so that means I have 18.5 to go. I am already in immense discomfort. Please, somebody, launch me into the sun." This paragraph comes from the Twitter Feed of Lee Sanderlin.  Mr. Sanderlin spent twenty-four hours in a Waffle House after losing his Fantasy Football League.  You can read about Mr. Sanderlin's experience throug...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: A truly consequential innovation is one that makes possible entirely new business models that touch the lives of millions. The car enabled motels and shopping malls, the internet enabled e-commerce, and smartphones and GPS enabled ride-sharing. What business model that touches the lives of millions have cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin made possible? American motorist...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: Some tourists say their visits are less pleasant because of the crowd of Disneyland caliber crowds at popular attractions… But the surge in tourism is now reaching new heights. Dead Horse Point State Park, near Arches and Canyonlands, saw twice as many visitors in March 2021 as in March 2019. Buffalo Bill State Park in Wyoming saw a 37% increase in visitors last year...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: 'I can see vast changes coming over a now peaceful world,' Churchill predicted to his friend Murland Evans; 'great upheavals, terrible struggles, wars such as one cannot imagine; and I tell you London will be in danger - London will be attacked and I shall be very prominent in the defence of London... I see into the future.  This country will be subjected, somehow, to...

To celebrate Father's Day, Zac and Don ask their dads to share their own life advice.  In addition each father is asked about how America has changed, and who they looked up to when they were young.  There is a lot of wisdom shared in this episode!

The Best Paragraph I've Read: Welcome to the curious case of Hobbs Kessler. As the school days wind down to a precious few, this is not how Kessler imagined his senior year would have gone. “I thought I would be rock climbing a lot more and spending time doing that,” he said. “Just running cross-country just for fun, as a social outlet.” A social outlet? Then why is the Ann Arbor Skyline sensation...