Turned on SportCenter this morning. Did you hear? Brett Favre and the Vikings beat Green Bay (with whom Brett Favre used to play! Drama!). And before you ask, no, nothing else important happened.
In the world of real and interesting news, there is a great piece in the New Yorker by Jon Lee Anderson on the gangsters of Rio de Janiero. Apparently Rio won their Olympic bid by trucking everyone else in the foreigner violent death rate competition. Here's the audio slide show accompanying the article. Pause at 0:42...see that kid chilling on his couch in a t-shirt and shorts? He's a gangster kingpin responsible for hundreds of murders and he's more powerful than the police. 2016 anyone?
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