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Sunday was an incredible day of NFL football, with a lot of key plays, none more key than this one:
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OMG this Tug McGraw/Tim McGraw beer ad:
OMGOMGOMG this Tug McGraw A&W root beer ad, part of the “Characters of the Game” series:
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ESSENTIAL READING
* The Wall Street Journal uses the peg of this week’s meeting between U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and a top Chinese official to update the waterfront on relations between the two nations, for which 2023 could end up being a very momentous year.
* (There are more Santos pieces, additional stories about the Biden document controversy being politically inconvenient for the White House, and some added articles about House Republicans and the debt ceiling – none of which, I can say after reading them, are essential.)
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