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• Malcolm Gladwell, deconstructed

  The Nation has an in-depth explainer of how, if you feel like you’re eating cotton candy when you read Gladwell, you actually are!There is no god and I am his prophet. [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 12:32pm EST
  

• The Nation still rides the Obama pony

  It’s kind of sad for Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel to still talk about Barack Obama as a progressive president. Coming from someone theoretically that well informed, I’d have to call that a conscious, deliberate lie of some sort. That’s doubly true since she next lists all the disappointments of [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 11:09am EST
  

• Facebook fun and games is big bucks

  Only, you don’t get a cut. Beyond your privacy, and often that of your friends, being infringed by various Facebook game apps, what’s ultimately happening is you’re setting yourself up to be the target of a shitload of spam advertising, whether via e-mail, on Facebook pages or elsewhere.
  
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:20am EST