The problem of London Burning, summed up handily.

Via Ace of Spades Headlines: below is a current snapshot of recent sales in Amazon UK’s Sports and Leisure sales.  Sales of certain items have, ah, trended:

Personally, I have to join in AoSHQ’s endorsement of the Louisville Slugger.  My dad was an old-school labor negotiator – private sector, of course!  None of this public sector union nonsense for him – and he swore that wood was simply more intimidating than aluminum.

So there you go.