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I admit that I did visit fivethirtyeight.com a few times prior to the election (a few=lots). More power to Nate Silver for nailing a good book deal, but this line got me:

The pricetag, we hear, is above $600,000 but below $1 million—a healthy sum even though it's paying for two books rather than just one.

It's a healthy sum for five books, even. Or ten. Twenty.

I know. I'm speaking from the genre side fo the fence, not up-to-the-minute nonfiction, which pays much better on average. But that "even though" got to me. The "rather than just one" didn't help.

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I admit that I did visit fivethirtyeight.com a few times prior to the election (a few=lots). More power to Nate Silver for nailing a good book deal, but this line got me:

The pricetag, we hear, is above $600,000 but below $1 million—a healthy sum even though it's paying for two books rather than just one.

It's a healthy sum for five books, even. Or ten. Twenty.

I know. I'm speaking from the genre side fo the fence, not up-to-the-minute nonfiction, which pays much better on average. But that "even though" got to me. The "rather than just one" didn't help.

There's a story in this somewhere

Maybe with vampires, maybe not.

MADRID, Spain – A new kind of silent hero has joined the fight against climate change.

Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a gritty, working-class town outside Barcelona, has placed a sea of solar panels atop mausoleums at its cemetery, transforming a place of perpetual rest into one buzzing with renewable energy.

Flat, open and sun-drenched land is so scarce in Santa Coloma that the graveyard was just about the only viable spot to move ahead with its solar energy program.

In row after row of gleaming, blue-gray, the panels rest on mausoleums holding five layers of coffins, many of them marked with bouquets of fake flowers. The panels face almost due south, which is good for soaking up sunshine, and started working on Wednesday — the culmination of a project that began three years ago.

There's something here. I can't put my finger on it--maybe someone else can.

There's a story in this somewhere

Maybe with vampires, maybe not.

MADRID, Spain – A new kind of silent hero has joined the fight against climate change.

Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a gritty, working-class town outside Barcelona, has placed a sea of solar panels atop mausoleums at its cemetery, transforming a place of perpetual rest into one buzzing with renewable energy.

Flat, open and sun-drenched land is so scarce in Santa Coloma that the graveyard was just about the only viable spot to move ahead with its solar energy program.

In row after row of gleaming, blue-gray, the panels rest on mausoleums holding five layers of coffins, many of them marked with bouquets of fake flowers. The panels face almost due south, which is good for soaking up sunshine, and started working on Wednesday — the culmination of a project that began three years ago.

There's something here. I can't put my finger on it--maybe someone else can.