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It’s a lovely George Harrison cover. Nicely done.

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Another great piece by Matt Taibbi.

Most accurate description yet:

A hall full of elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing against government spending and imagining themselves revolutionaries as they cheer on the vice-presidential puppet hand-picked by the GOP establishment. If there exists a better snapshot of everything the Tea Party represents, I can’t imagine it.

He manages to give us some good news in his summation:

The bad news is that the Tea Party’s political outrage is being appropriated, with thanks, by the Goldmans and the BPs of the world. The good news, if you want to look at it that way, is that those interests mostly have us by the balls anyway, no matter who wins on Election Day. That’s the reality; the rest of this is just noise. It’s just that it’s a lot of noise, and there’s no telling when it’s ever going to end.

Tea & Crackers | Rolling Stone Politics.

The best/scariest part is when Taibbi describes a tour of the Creation Museum, omg.

Thanks to my pal @olevia for sharing this article. She always finds the good stuff.

Troubled Asset Relief Program

Congressional Oversight Panel: Congressional Oversight Panel.

TARP Cost Will Be Less Than Once Thought – NYTimes.com.

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Pledge of Allegiance and how it changes. I prefer the 1923 to 1924 version.

via Pledge of Allegiance – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

• Good morning #
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• The Hidden World of Insect Flight (Wired) http://bit.ly/dpLnJY frog fail #
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