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JVL is BACK!

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Jonathan V. Last
August 23, 2021∙ Paid
How pretty! Now let me tell you why everything is terrible and we’re all doomed. (Photo: JVL)

1. Catching Up

Lots of stuff happening but I want to touch on three topics from last week: the Jeopardy! fiasco, the murder of Topps, and Afghanistan.

Let’s go in ascending order of importance, starting with Jeopardy. (I’m not going to use the exclamation mark bec…

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