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I am not the same Devon Pendleton who has apparently started some sort of war with Barstool Sports. So kindly quit with the angry comments. I’m sure the other Devon Pendleton has a blog you can spar with.
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Gaming for Good and an Update
I recently had the pleasure of contributing a story to a very interesting, relatively new online mag, The Good Men Project Magazine. It’s a worthwhile site to bookmark if you enjoy thoughtful, sometimes provocative essays about society, sports, ethics…other manly … Continue reading
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Back At It
So it’s been nearly a year. A year. A year in which this neglected blog has been left fallow- a fact both embarrassing and unacceptable to someone like myself, for whom consistency is right behind godliness and just ahead of … Continue reading
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Brooklyn, Consumed
Earlier this month, The New Yorker ran one of the most insightful pieces of cultural criticism I have ever read. Or at least I think it was about culture. Or a critique. It was definitely in the New Yorker, though not online … Continue reading
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Aussie Mining Magnate To Make Billions on Smog
Mining is not a clean business, not in any sense of the word. Any casual observer of Australia’s rough and tumble (and highly-lucrative) minerals industry can tell you that. With its risky, dirty, dangerous nature, the job is a casting … Continue reading
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The World is Sinking
It was intended to sink. That is the party line of Nakheel, developer behind Dubai’s manmade island project “The World.” The company issued the defensive statement yesterday in response to a story in Britain’s Daily Mail claiming a satellite image … Continue reading
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Steve Jobs, Misogynist?
There were a million reasons to be excited about Apple’s big debut yesterday. A “game-changer,” a potential savior for print journalism, another mind-blowingly slick product, a chance to confirm Steve Jobs is in fact, apparently human. Hell, I sprang out … Continue reading
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The Gates Foundation's Capitalist Manifesto
The take-home message from Bill Gates in his second-annual letter detailing the progress of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is simple: it’s good to be rich. Not good in the Cristal/Bentley/gated-communities sense but good with a capital G. If … Continue reading
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My Year of Living Gimmickry
While riding in the back of a bus this weekend, I came across an interesting/depressing article in the Wall Street Journal that I thought said a lot about the current state of journalism. The message, essentially, was that no one … Continue reading
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Dubai's American Exec Bounced From Sinking Ship
A quick addendum to my earlier post: David Jackson, the bon vivant-in-chief of Dubai’s private equity arm Istithmar World, has been fired resigned. The news comes just one day after regional investment bank EFG-Hermes estimated the emirate’s debt obligations could be … Continue reading
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