“In 2023, the NCAA found that approximately 58 percent of 18-to-22-year-olds had wagered on sports, with the financial fallout landing primarily on young men.”

In 1997 British Airways spent tens of millions of pounds repainting its tailfins with world art. The designs were attractive and the execution was competent. But the rebrand was a disaster. The problem was that no one had thought about what British Airways should be before deciding what it should look like. Margaret Thatcher famously draped a handkerchief over a model tailfin at a trade show. The planes were eventually repainted.

“The years leading to November 2024 had taught the teachable that the next American president, like old skunk Biden before him, would continue to play procurer and pimp for Israel.”

No matter how often Republicans recite the conservative mantra of the Constitution, limited government, individual freedom, private property, traditional values, free enterprise, and a strong national defense, the truth is that they only selectively believe it.

In California, gas stations are facing a unique challenge. The station signs are only configured to go up to $9.99 per gallon and at several stations the price of diesel has reached that maximum. Diesel prices are higher than they have ever been in history.

Worse, according to some news reports the advertising of the maximum price of $9.99 per gallon is meant to signal to truck drivers that they have run out of diesel altogether. Expensive diesel is a hit to the economy, but running out of the fuel at any price is a whole different kind of crisis.