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We all know that the fashion biz uses computer technology to make its models appear impossibly skinny. They've escalated to the point where a model's head appears bigger than her pelvis, and they claim copyright violation when someone points that out.

Thanx to debgeisler

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Kit Reed looks at a new kind of "book" without all that reading and imagination and stuff.

Thanx to the author on Facebook.

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What I don’t get about the movement to tax soda is that the price of soda is generally artificially low because we subsidize the sweeteners that sodas use. The government’s raising the price of the thing it lowered the price of to begin with, and losing more money in the process administrating both steps--Jesse Taylor

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It says here that a particular health insurance company's goodwill makes up 106% of the company's value. Can you imagine how much the goodwill must be worth for a business that isn't hated by everyone?

Thanx to Mercury Rising.

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Television comedians are our natural leaders. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are more trusted than other news sources (and rightly so). Al Franken is a better senator than most of those who have never been paid to be funny. And now we have two cases of adultery extortion. The senator went whining to Mommy and Daddy to pay off the bad guys, and the comedian said, "Publish and be damned."

Thanx to Mercury Rising.

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MySpace shocked that an actual individual human person owns a copyright.

Thanx to andrewducker

Mai iggerenz, let me show you it.

Columnist shocked that the Intarwebs have made mourning a public ritual, unlike all of past history. oursin enlightens her.