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What would you pay at pay-what-you-want?
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Rod Dreher
Heard about these pay-what-you-want restaurants? No prices, just pay what you think you should. It’s a fascinating experiment in psychology. According to the AP report about an outlet of the Panera Bread Co. restaurant operating under this model: The pilot restaurant is run by a nonprofit foundation. If it can sustain itself financially, Panera will…
Roaring Virile Fire doused by China commies
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Rod Dreher
A dispatch from the front lines of social progress in the People’s Republic of China: In private, the professor, Ma Yaohai, 53, led a life that became intolerable to Chinese authorities: for the past six years, he was a member of informal swingers clubs that practiced group sex and partner swapping. In online chat rooms,…
Great Depression II? Or another lost decade?
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Rod Dreher
The stock market continues its dramatic slide today. Sounds like folks are getting spooked: Bill Gross of bond fund Pimco said that hedge funds were starting to liquidate their positions in a bid to preserve their capital – a worrying “mini relapse” towards 2008 territory. Andrew Roberts, head of European rates strategy at RBS, said…
Bordeaux? Dude, what’s that?
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Rod Dreher
Lots of buzz on the wine and food blogs about Eric Asimov’s Times column observing that the younger generation of wine aficionados don’t care about Bordeaux. Excerpt: But for a significant segment of the wine-drinking population in the United States, the raves heard around the world [for the 2009 vintage] were not enough to elicit…
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