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New and Old #128

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Addison Del Mastro
Sep 22, 2023
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The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge, Tyler Vigen

This is one of those “I wish I’d written this piece” pieces. (My closest is this one.)

“Why is this bridge here?” it begins, and you can maybe guess some of what follows. It’s a delightful bit of detective work, solving something objectively meaningless. But exactly because the thing itself is meaningless…

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