Some days I do a search on what is the daily news. I know the news today so don't really know what made me search for "News today June 4 2020." The top retrieval will be coronavirus. What was the second one? It was the daily horoscope, and just down the page is this surprise:
Bridge: June 4, 2020 - The Mercury News. Playing today's four spades, he ruffed West's ace of diamonds and took the A-K of trumps...
Like a horse race, I wonder if bridge has made it to the front of the line. But don't underestimate the horoscope as news; there are two more horoscope headlines. So for today, it looks like horoscope wins by at least a head, and maybe a neck.
How popular is bridge if we compare it to horoscopes? Worldwide 200 million people play bridge. 25 million people in the U.S. are bridge players.
The American Federation of Astrologers put the number of Americans who read their horoscope every day as high as 70 million, about 23 percent of the population.
So wouldn't that mean that horoscopes has won by 3 lengths in the horse race of news. Or maybe it is much more. Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths - an astonishing record that will remain for decades.
It takes skill to play bridge while it only takes basic reading for a horoscope. So much easier to play at horoscopes. And we have a lot more invested in what's going to happen to us each day. So my bet stays with horoscopes as winning by a lot.
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