Lesson #448 - Punditry

Doesn't it seem like we're hitting unprecedented heights of success in all fields, what with every day we proceed onwards as a species? Politicians giving greater and greater and more and more meaningful speeches with each speech they give, sports feats repeatedly being topped in significance (Sports Illustrated, mind you, labeled both 1999 and 2008 the greatest sports years ever, right after each occurred), achievements in all aspects repeatedly getting better. And of course, there's never any statistics to quantify such achievement, just speculation.

Either pundits never learned how to compare things properly back when they were in school, or the world is about to explode in an overload of success.

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Ran out of time to make a recitation for this week, guys. Sorry about that. Maybe I'll have a chance to do an office hour later on Twitter to make up for it. No guarantees.