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• Op-Ed Contributor - Four Deformations of the Apocalypse - NYTimes.com

  www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/opinion/01stockman.html?_r=2&src=me&ref=homepage

  IF there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing.

  
  

• Brevard voters may decide charter changes | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY

  www.floridatoday.com/article/20100803/NEWS01/8030312/1086/

  VIERA — This November, Space Coast voters may decide the fate of four proposed changes to Brevard County's "home-rule" charter.

  
  

• Sparky predicts: Bogus wingnut scandals of the future - This Modern World - Salon.com

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  www.salon.com/entertainment/comics/this_modern_world/2010/08/03/this_modern_world

  Sparky predicts: Bogus wingnut scandals of the future

  
  

• The fantasy of a vast upper middle class - Economics - Salon.com

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  Among the many theories exposed as fallacies by the Great Recession is the idea of the mass upper middle class. During the years of the American bubble economy, progressives and conservatives alike lauded the graduation of most citizens from the working class to a new elite that included the majority of Americans.

  
  

• Why I like vicious, anonymous online comments - Internet Culture - Salon.com

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  www.salon.com/life/internet_culture/index.html?story=/mwt/feature/2010/08/03/in_...

  Three months ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a couple who'd had trouble conceiving a child finally succeeded, and announced the impending arrival of twins with a cleverly edited and utterly harmless YouTube video that turned the final attack on the Death Star in "Star Wars, Episode IV" into a cheesy metaphor for conception. ("Torpedoes away!") Most of the comments were of the expected variety: generic congratulations and cornball "Star Wars" jokes.
  
  Then there were the others

  
  

• Jeff Greene is a nightmare boss - Florida Senate Race - Salon.com

  www.salon.com/news/florida_senate_race/?story=/politics/war_room/2010/08/02/gree...

  Billionaire real estate investor Jeff Greene is running for the Democratic nomination for Senate, in Florida, because he can. He could very well win the nomination, because his primary opponent is kind of weak and many Democrats are just planning to vote for newly independent Gov. Charlie Crist anyway. The source of Greene's appeal is that he is not a "professional politician." He is, in fact, a professional rich person. And, according to his former chefs and boat captains and tenants, he is also a cheapskate jerk.

  
  

• Stephen Colbert Compares Bush Tax Cuts To Digesting Bud Light Lime (VIDEO)

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  www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/02/stephen-colbert-compares_n_667971.html

  
  

• YouTube - My Life

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• G.M. and Chrysler Show Progress After Bankruptcy - DealBook Blog - NYTimes.com

  dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/automakers-show-progress-after-losses-in-b...

  The two automakers saved from collapse last year by billions of dollars in government loans offered evidence Wednesday of what they and the Obama administration said was proof of their turnarounds, even as the market for new vehicles remained weak, The New York Times’s Nick Bunkley reports from Detroit.