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• Is there something in this that Glenn Greenwald hasn't covered before? The Maverick and the Media - sounds like Marshall McLuhan to me.

• Now, here's a surprise: Cigarette Company Paid for Lung Cancer Study. Says here that the researcher's study "has caused an appearance of bias." Oh, really?

• For the sake of balance an fair gamesmanship, I present to you an op-ed piece by David Brooks entitled, The Long Defeat... even he makes sense sometimes. But just in case, here's The GOP attack plan for Hillary Clinton

• Things are looking much better now that Taxpayers May Be Liable for Billions in Fed, Treasury Mortgage-Rescue Bid, don'tcha think? Thank goodness we live in the age of the anti-Cassandra.

• Court rebukes Bush in death penalty case

• Time to change the innersoles: all politics is local (Tip O'Neill?) - Nike back for another round in Beaverton

• Via Daring Fireball,  Steve Jobs on Paul Rand

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