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Zoriah Miller is a photojournalist who was ejected from his embed assignment for publishing pictures of a dead Marine on his website. I am ambivalent about the merits of Miller’s complaint: To kick someone off an assignment isn’t the same as censoring him, and Miller knew the rules going in. On the other hand, the Department of Defense’s …

• Newest weapon in the war on terror: Knight Rider! You think Cheney will use the show as an example of why we should allow prisoners to be interrogated by talking cars? [io9]

• Fight for your mental privacy! And, speaking of the Bush admin, what would they say to Heather having a Mommy with two heads? [io9]

• A major element in my

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He’s signed on to help the Packers out with the whole Favre thing. My husband writes: “Any moment now, the club will announce that Favre’s return to the locker room will be greeted with sweets and flowers…”

The headline from Obama’s Energy speech is likely to be his “flip flop” (or whatever) on drilling. But what’s the headline behind the headline? As usual, “Obama Stuns Nation by Revealing Himself to be a Politician.” Here’s a particularly interesting paragraph from that speech:

George Bush’s own Energy Department has said that if we

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And you thought I was superficial:

But in a nation in which 66% of the voting-age population is overweight and 32% is obese, could Sen. Obama’s skinniness be a liability? Despite his visits to waffle houses, ice-cream parlors and greasy-spoon diners around the country, his slim physique just might have some Americans wondering whether he

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• “Who doesn’t like a melancholy Ronald McDonald in an Economist chart?” [A Hamburger Today]

• “For $30,000 the city will put your company’s name on a bullet-proof box that encases the [security] camera. Haven’t got that much cash? The city offers lower rates for small company logos or even an individual’s name. … The

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Old hacks never die, they just mangle more cliches:

“There is going to be a time in everybody’s career where something happens that is a real pickle. They are going to be in some kind of jam or problem and you can never lie,” said Fleischer. “You don’t have to answer every question. You can say that you have the right to …

This is what puts the “genius” in “evil genius”!

HERSH: There was a dozen ideas proffered [from Cheney’s office] about how to trigger a war. The one that interested me the most was why don’t we build — we in our shipyard — build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next

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Daniel Larison, guesting for Sullivan, puts words to my own growing feeling of unease about this election:

Back in January, the media criticized McCain for his lies about Romney, but ultimately forgave him on the twisted grounds that he doesn’t enjoy lying, and so he remained their hero. The same will happen concerning McCain’s lies

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We can be pretty sure he’s just making this stuff now, right?

Breaking:

Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican in the U.S. Senate and one of the chamber’s most powerful members, was indicted Tuesday in Washington, a result of a year-long investigation into corruption in Alaska politics.

The indictment comes nearly one year after federal agents raided Stevens’ home in Girdwood, a resort

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As part of an effort to reach over a million working class voters in swing states, the AFL-CIO is putting out a mailer to “dispel myths” about Obama. These myths include:

Dick just looks thrilled to be there. What did he put his hand on when he was sworn in? Money? A bucket of oil?

Given the

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We should be as doubtful about McCain being up 4 as we should have been about Obama being up 9. I think you can recycle Mark Blumenthal’s points about the earlier poll to apply to this one, especially, I think, this: “[I]f the volatility is about voter preferences and not poll methodology, [it’s due to] as many as a third of registered …