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Links I liked

1. “Thank God we don’t have huge flies like that here.

2. Tsangverai to Mugabe: “You misjudge me at your peril.

3. “Climate change depresses beer drinkers.

4. And from Dan Drezner, reporting on the annual poli sci conference:

Books available for just three bucks at the conference — indicating that these titles had either jumped the shark or never caught fire:

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  1. Worth noting re: link #1 that one commenter has suggested this story is an urban legend, which wouldn’t entirely surprise me. Snopes doesn’t seem to have it, but maybe some other commenters have more information?

  2. No surprises on number 4. If The Shock Doctrine is the best that mainstream Left can give us, we’re in a lot of trouble. I sympathize with Klein and Chomsky’s concerns but their argumentation is often dodgy in key areas and misleading in others. And that’s putting aside issues at the level of paradigm. Friedman, I believe, has thoroughly bored his last readers. Call centers in India! Post 9-11 world! Clean tech!

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