(One Piece of) The *Real* Headline News
One piece of the real headline news: Virginia Postrel is tremendously amazed
and excited by her purchase of a five-pound bag of flour for $0.69:
Dynamist.com: The Scene (vpostrel.com): CHEAP STAPLES: I bought a five pound
bag of Gold Medal flour yesterday for 69 cents. I find that amazing. [Posted
12/11.]
She is completely right to be tremendously amazed and excited. Consider the
overwhelming bulk of our ancestors half a millennium ago--Eurasian peasants
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