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@jayrosen_nyu was right, the WashPost backed down from the lobbyist "salons" http://tr.im/qDPm
via @jayrosen_nyu, WashPost sells access to "those powerful few" for $25-250,000. Paper as lobbyist facilitator. Wow. http://tr.im/qCzb
"People like me" and "Bang Bang" by K'Naan are two of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. http://bit.ly/3we7KE
I agree with Nico Pitney: there's nothing wrong with reporters "colluding" about presser q's when the q's are serious. http://bit.ly/p69Pv
"The real test of ideological purity will come when Congress takes up health care" -GOP "moderates" on the 8 Rs for ACES http://bit.ly/bt0M3
MN Supreme Court finally declares Franken the winner: http://bit.ly/fCeH8 (Coleman to appeal to Fed court, then to God. Seated by Nov '12?)
So much written on Am. drug culture "that it would take weeks to roll all that paper and smoke it" A gem from Ryan Grim http://bit.ly/15H7Ii
Sandra Tsing Loh's dissection of her own divorce is one of the most honest social critiques I've read in a while. http://bit.ly/18TgdH
Observing the hissyfit Dana Milbank & co are throwing at Nico Pitney & HuffPost and laughing. Waaaaahh. (Background: http://bit.ly/1ahjpT)
David Sirota goes totally, unreachably off the grid in rural China, "an all-too-rare experiment in human life" http://bit.ly/16Ps3u
Maybe for the first time, the US stands *against* a coup in Latin Am against a leftist govt. The moral high ground. http://bit.ly/Y4urQ
Billy Mays, the OxiClean/Hercules Hook/Mighty Putty guy, is dead at 50 (from hitting his head on a plane landing) http://bit.ly/xvx0S
Obama wastes no time! Health care, cap&trade, Sotomayor, Iran, Afg drug policy, financial reg, now immigration reform! http://bit.ly/17jJle
Is Iran blaming Obama for meddling even when he didn't an argument for meddling? what good could we really have effected? http://bit.ly/Cy1r
(Link for prev: http://bit.ly/MXCpx)
Hoyer y'day: #ACES isn't about taxes, it's about getting rid of the tax by "foreign potentates" thru foreign oil prices. http://bit.ly/XqB5t
Via Greg Mankiw: with tons of money you can make more money. Duh. What to do with a $3bn loan. http://bit.ly/1ZnqX
What's the sociological concept of a group's specialized lingo acting as a barrier to entry? Example w/ govt contracts http://bit.ly/n0rzy
MUST HAVE. Doh! http://bit.ly/CFMEn

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