| Happy Friday! We have a lovely new issue out, with the cover story by former TWSer, current Free Beacon bigwig, and Weekly Substandard podcast co-host Sonny Bunch. It’s about the abundance of television #content available to people in the present day. Will any/much of this content endure, or is most of it … well … shit? Read Sonny, who is always right. I don’t want to spoil it for you. Depending on your age, jump back a decade, two, three, or four ago. What was your entertainment / news diet like? Better? Worse? Will there be more #content? Or are we at peak #content? Since it’s Friday, and many of our readers are observing Lent, here’s a neat look at the nearly dead restaurant chain Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips. I am not a fish eater, despite being Catholic, but I didn’t realize the last remaining scraps of this chain are in my hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. (I was more a fan Long John Silver’s and their beer battered chicken planks, and that brand is slowly dying out, too, sadly.) Like with Pizza Hut, it’s always interesting to see what the abandoned buildings of these well-known chains have become. Down in Woodbridge, there is a Pizza Hut church. By me, an Arthur Treacher’s that was open when I moved to Virginia 11 years ago is now a pupuseria. Florida Bridge Collapse Part of Shoddy Stimulus Program. Haste makes waste, they often say... and the folks at Reason have identified that the pedestrian bridge collapse Thursday in Florida was part of the TIGER grant program. A program, the magazine reports, that has “come under fire for putting politics ahead of technical concerns.” Eve of Chernobyl. There is a woman in Ukraine who has created a YouTube following for her risky behavior in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. I guess that’s one way to go...
Karl Marx’s Jew-Hating Conspiracy Theory. And now, for your must-read Jonah Goldberg column of the day, at Commentary, he explains why “Marx didn’t supplant old ideas about money and commerce; he intensified them.”
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