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According to the Wall Street Journal/Realtor.com index, the hottest housing market in the U.S. right now is... wait, take a guess. New York, L.A., San Francisco? Nope. Some beachy area? Nah. Austin? Good guess, but second place. The winner: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Really? Yeah, CDA has limited inventory and a lot of people wanting to live in a lakeside, less congested city. Small town vibes, and a chance to escape the big city grind. Also, a really conservative area, so the anti-lockdown, ...

It's possible to feel bad for someone who was scammed out of $140,000 and marvel that he fell for the scam itself. The scam in question involved his getting a letter postmarked from Portugal with a questionable-looking proclamation that he had won the lottery there (oddly, with the same logo in English as the Mega Millions here) and instructions that led to sending cash upfront for "tax money." There are sophisticated scams that are hard to tell from the truth until it's too late, ...

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This article from Defector outlines how tax dollars -- a LOT of tax dollars -- are subsidizing horse racing. The horse racing industry is totally beholden to states propping it up with massive infusions of money. Why? Why is money that could go to other things being sent to a dying industry? You know that younger folks aren't at all interested in horse racing, that it's not that popular anymore, that it won't grow, that it can be downright cruel or even fatal for the horses. Why are race tracks and purses being fueled with casino revenues when there are other things that slot ...

The pandemic triggered a major uptick in insurance claims related to hot tubs in the U.K., and by "major uptick" I mean they tripled. Apparently, everyone in the U.K. got a hot tub to while away the hours in isolation. Or maybe it was Brexit. Anyway, you had accidental damage like submerged cell phones, engagement rings ripping into tub linings, stuff like that. See, I always thought of hot tubs as bacteria breeding grounds, which would not make them ideal for a pandemic, but what do I know? People were actually stealing hot tubs from other people's gardens, so clearly I'm in ...