Freakonomics + NHL = dishonest parents?

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This Malcolm Gladwell post is chock full of interesting stuff (which he nicely distills so that I don’t have to read anything complicated myself), especially the following:

“One of the curious facts in the study:  in both the United States and the United Kingdom, the more money you make and the more education you have, the more you drink. There are roughly twice as many heavy drinkers in the best educated English cohort as there are in the least educated English cohort. So much for class assumptions about alcohol.”

Huh. Who knew?

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Toronto is getting a Major League Soccer team. I had no idea. But I might actually go. I have no desire to shell out my life’s savings to watch a hockey team I despise (not that you can get tickets anyway), and I don’t particularly care about/for the Jays or Argos. I occasionally buy Raptors tickets, but am less inclined to do so in recent years, for obvious reasons. I’m guessing the tickets will be reasonably priced, at least.

[tags]freakonomics, malcolm gladwell, toronto fc, mls[/tags]