We bring you another edition of TBB Best of Web: we get behind into the secret Iran war, how student debt sucks so bad, how the prison economy works, learn how much drug rehab centers cost and how they do not work very well, learn the fascinating caviar history and look at amazing photos by Margaret Bourke-White.
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At every Best of Web post I pick the best reads that blew my mind in the previous week. It can be…anything! I like to be eclectic and despise salesy/clickbait/sameold content you read…everywhere else!
As always, click on the headline to be taken to the original source. Sometimes I insert my incendiary comments on article excerpts between [brackets].
The Secret History of the Push to Strike Iran
This is an awesome article to read if you are interested or fascinated by geopolitics. And it makes it even more important with the departure of John Bolton who did not get to bomb any other country and he is so sad about that. But it also now makes the situation more unstable with no intellectual policy theme around the clowns surrounding the US President.
Anyway, the behind the scenes interactions between Obama and Netanyahu are quite something. And there are more similar details, I really enjoyed this one! I hope you do too. If not, well, move on to the next one okay?
Too many to excerpt here. And I am doing this post from a lounge at Phoenix airport so my time is very limited you guys!
Student Debt Is Transforming the American Family
I have a son who graduated from the University of Michigan this year. And a daughter who is a senior in high school…and she is aiming at the same school as her first choice. Both their parents did not go to an “elite” (whatever that means) school. Both did not even want to hear it when we told them they should apply to our alma matter. Disappointing for us? Yeah, in a way. But their response was “things have changed”. So, I do not blame parents trying to help their kids get into those schools. I hope it works out for them. This is why you should probably save for that like we did. One thing for sure…it has become ridiculously expensive to get a college education in the US and we are loading up kids with way too much debt!
The article is a must read as is everything I post on the TBB Best of Web edition 🙂
From pecan pralines to ‘dots’ as currency: how the prison economy works
This is a fascinating read all about how the money moves inside prisons. With a portion to it devoted to prepaid cards. And Green Dot you guys…
This will shock you! Well, not as much as a post about two humans exiting a bathroom in an airplane and being right there to video it, sad lol.
She spent more than $110,000 on drug rehab. Her son still died.
I had no idea addiction treatment cost this much. And that there is not much accountability for this type of facilities. And their sad success record.
Very sobering and sad article. We can do better than this!
Caviar was a free bar snack
In this miles and points hobby, a certain portion of the hobbyist populations enjoys burning miles to fly on First Class so they can then show off how they are drinking Krug champagne and eating caviar. For the record, I can not stand the taste of either so there!
But, did you ever wonder how this caviar thing became such a luxury type food in the first place? Well, you probably did not. But since you come to read my blog I am sharing this article with you to educate you about the history of caviar!
And it is, well, fascinating. It was a free bar snack in the beginning for crying out loud. Just like all of you never imagined The Points Guy to go to 100 staffers from the days of doing free award bookings on Flyertalk…Similar trajectory lol!
Until 100 years ago, sturgeon were plentiful in the rivers and lakes throughout Europe and America, and caviar was an ordinary food for those who lived near these sturgeon-filled waterways — in some areas it was so common it was served as a free bar snack
An extra sixth link today…
The Photography of Margaret Bourke-White
Do me a favor. Click on the link above. If you do not enjoy looking at her totally awesome photographs I will give you your money back! Oh wait, what money….Whatever, just click it!
And I leave you with this…This gets me rofl every time!
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Thanks for these. Lots to think about.
Good riddance, Bolton! I don’t know that he’s ever known a war he didn’t like.
The next national security adviser may be a lunatic.
No different than Bolton.
Green Dots in prison! So manufactured spenders now have something in common with convicts! LMAO! Great article.
I absolutely love that lady’s photographs! Wow!!
College has become so outrageously expensive anymore….just about a scam these days. Not sure what it will take to bring it back to reality.
I don’t get the appeal of caviar, it’s OK but I get more excited over high quality chocolate or liquor. I read that lobster used to be common, “low class” food because it was once so plentiful.
Trying to catch up form the conference I attended. I am almost there.
I replied to the Amazon affiliate violation email. I hope I did what they were looking for. If not, it goes down.
Mailchimp to increase the email list subscription service fee from $15 to $20 per month.
I am the last blogger on earth that will have a podcast.
Stamina is my middle name 🙂 But nearing 7 years of TBBing maybe it is time to evolve and focus on what pays the bills and marathons… #developing
I am not the type to sell out and be a salesperson for the banks pumping daily non stop so I guess making this “venture” commercially successful was never really in the works. But when you lose money it…hurts. I actually learned from a speaker in the conference that pain is good. But this is turning to self beating lol.
Rumor: TBB to join Mile Nerd soon?
Well if you enjoy doing it and get a non-monetary personal value from it, then don’t think of it as losing money but as money spent in a hobby or pastime that you like.
And if you don’t enjoy it anymore or don’t feel it’s worth the investment, then certainly no reason to keep trudging through it (though we’d miss it if you did!).
I think the same feedback has been given to me for years…
The amount of time spent here is not a hobby/pastime. It was for a while but this has been going on for almost seven years!
I am still waiting for a response from Amazon…
Blog post for tomorrow is developing right now…
I will miss you guys too, this has been part of my life and we are going to miss it 🙂