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While watching the Patriots lose badly last night I hatched a genius marketing scheme. Last month, we here at fly into the mystery had our most traffic ever. To encourage your obsessive interest in my blog, I am giving away cookies. This is a bit unfair, as Bethany has already won this week’s contest. These [...]

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How did I miss this?

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Malcolm Gladwell breaks it down in the latest New Yorker. Playing football, even on a high school level, leads to measurable brain damage. He makes an extremely uncomfortable comparison between dogs’ desire to please their masters leading them to suicidal behavior in the ring, and football players’ drive to play the game through all injuries [...]

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NFL

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Salem Willows Amusement Park

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One in thirty-one adult US citizens is either in prison, parole or on probation. This is absolutely fucking crazy. Some of my colleagues back in Brooklyn are doing amazing work with prisoners, in juvenile detention centers, even doing storytime on Riker’s Island. But, as was pointed out in an excellent training session we had- Everyone [...]

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