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White House Press Secretary's Tweets To Be Archived- USA Today
The Poor Are Better Off Renting - Wall Street Journal
It helps the poor from becoming homeless, you see. As their incomes inevitably fall they'll never be able to make the mortgage, pay the taxes, insure or maintain a house anyhow.
Asian Carp Battle - Chicago vs Michigan - Michigan Public Radio
"Wednesday's public hearing on keeping Asian Carp out of Lake Michigan turned into a forum on the threat to the financial health of Chicago's tour boat industry."
Pop Nihilism - AdBusters
"[By the 1960's] Advertising agencies had mastered the ability to sell the American consumer products that they had never heard of and had no real need for."
ACTA Treaty's secret negotiations - BoingBoing
"...a naked bit of crony-capitalism that has so much more at stake than mere copyright."
Can cops look through your cellphone with a warrant? -Cnet
Special Ops Gunships To Get Pain-Inducing Weapons - Popular Mechanics
The bottom line is that banks like Goldman have learned absolutely nothing from the global economic meltdown.-Matt Taibbi @ Rolling Stone
Army looking at using cockroaches to find hidden nuclear materials - Wired
No stupider than other stuff they've wasted money on over the years.

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Teens think blogging is lame. Twitter too. - Ars Technica
Walking Away from Underwater Mortgages Is Good for the Economy - Beat The Press blog
"If millions of homeowners made this decision it could lead to tens of billions of dollars in additional consumption, providing a substantial boost to the economy. The decision of homeowners to walk away might be bad news for banks, but it is good news for the economy."
"Right to Work" really means "Right to Work... for less" - Ron Gettlefinger (Detroit News)
Ayn Rand: Nuts in theory, nuts in practice. A book review of her latest biography. - New Criterion
The Catastrophe of Postmodernism - John Zerzan (Anarchist Library)
The Thong Is Dead!- Cosmopolitan
The new trend is toward designs that don't give you a permanent wedgie.