13 Essential Barbecue Stops (and What to Order) – The New York Times

27 de Outubro de 2016, 21:31, por O LADO ESCURO DA LUA

From Harrisburg, Pa., to Memphis, Tenn., the brisket, sausage, pulled and chopped pork, and fried okra you should put on your plate.

Fonte: 13 Essential Barbecue Stops (and What to Order) – The New York Times

Paul Beatty: I See You – Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics

27 de Outubro de 2016, 19:26, por O LADO ESCURO DA LUA

The winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction on truth and contradiction, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and the elusive gauge of progress in America.

Fonte: Paul Beatty: I See You – Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics

Underestimating the Density of the Fog

27 de Outubro de 2016, 19:23, por O LADO ESCURO DA LUA

Above the Market

The story has essentially attained the level of holy writ, at least to those committed to data and evidence, such that it now seems almost too good to be true. The quick-and-dirty version of the tale is that stats geeks with computers, like those former player and broadcaster Tim McCarver called “drooling eggheads,” outsmarted and outmaneuvered the stupid yet arrogant “traditional baseball men” who ran our most traditional sport at the professional level and who thought they knew all there was to know about the game. Thus, it is said, everything the old-time baseball men thought they knew about evaluating players and teams has been found wanting, not that those whose day has passed, committed to wizardry and witchcraft as they are, have recognized it.