Saturday, December 11, 2010

The Round-Up #4, featuring one (Ron Artest) link YOU MUST READ

Welcome to the Round-Up. Throughout the week, I will be posting links to the most interesting, funny, and/or unique articles I read on DWG's Twitter feed, DownWithGT. Then, on the weekend, I will post links to the 3(ish) most interesting, funny, and/or unique articles I tweeted. Here, ladies and gentleman, is the Round-Up #4:




There are two matters that made it to this week's Round-Up. Let's start with China so we can end on an indisputably positive note. China is a bit fake. It puts on a front of economic growth that is greater than the nation's actual growth and masks its growing pains. It turns out, though, that China has even created ghost locations where the government pours money but which are not actually used. The country's GDP goes up and China's economy looks stronger but it is, ultimately, misrepresentation. Presumably, China will eventually have a wealthier population that will use these locations but for now we can gawk at the ghost towns and malls in the world's next economic giant and superpower.

But how about some (quasi-) news that is pure, unadulterated entertainment? Read this, about what it was like for one reporter to spend a day with Ron Artest. It's probably not what you expect. There are so many amazing anecdotes and quotes in here. I'm tempted to list them but that would desensitize the reader to amazing. I'm tempted to slip one in, like    , but that would be cheap and make that part of the article seem a bit bland. I'm tempted to write something about him but everything is said in the best possible way here. I'm tempted to collect all Ron Artest's most entertaining and inspiring moments in a Link-Up but that is also now unnecessary. Ron Artest is amazingly crazy, self-aware, brilliant, entertaining, down-to-earth, incomprehensible, inspiring. Make time to settle in and read this.

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