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  • Week in Review

    The Week the Inmates Ran the Asylum (and Something Washed Ashore)

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    • A dead sea monster washed ashore, and a nation was captivated. Theories were floated. Nothing was solved, although everyone tried.
    • We railed against freebloggers. They are subsidizing the entire Internet!
    • Larry King got drunk.
    • Anderson Cooper continued to confuse us sexually.
    • We met John Edwards' mistress. And his love child.We vetted it all with Wikipedia.
    • EARTHQUAKE! It was dutifully Twittered.
    • What will we, the media, do if Obama loses? Let us pray.
    • Banksy? Banxy.
    • Advertisements behaving badly! Also, Roger Stone said something.

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