The Great Iraq Swindle: How Bush Allowed an Army of For-Profit Contractors to Invade the U.S. Treasury (from Rolling Stone) In a much-ballyhooed example of favoritism, the White House originally…
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More from the ever-growing annals of corporate stupidity: Johnson & Johnson (founded 1886) sues the Red Cross (founded 1881) for appropriating their red cross trademark.from Wonkette (and CNN)
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David Thomson on Antonioni in The Guardian: Being with someone but not looking at them was nearly invented by Antonioni, and on film it is like a mortal sin.
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Jeffrey Zeldman on the iPhone: Computers are supposed to make our lives easier, but everyone knows they do the opposite, and I was so deep into my rut I thought…
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Jon Lusk on Fat Freddys Drop, just played at Glastonbury (from The Guardian): The band's laidback, island-time ambience is unmistakeably a product of its environment, but that seems only to…
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Mark Ravenhill on the curse of Robert McKee's "Story" (from The Guardian): Writer delivers script, goes in for meeting. "I'm missing the initiating incident on page 23," is a note…
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