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Matt Taibibi's Must Read...

This little article in Rolling Stone succinctly describes how we're all just little pawns in Goldman Sachs' would-be-criminal-if-they-didn't-make-the-law racketeering game and how there's nothing we can do about it.

Oh, FUCK THE RICH.

Nuance Wine Finer - make your $5 wine less, uh, cheap tasting

This thing got a really good review in a recent Cook's Illustrated. Apparently, it instantly decants your wine as you pour. So, maybe, for the $30 price tag, you can make those $5-$10 bottles of wine taste like $8-13 bottles? I don't know.

For the record, I'm not being sponsored by the folks at Nuance to plug this thing. I just really want one (hint, hint, Nuance).

Video demo

Rolling Stones Rice Krispies commercial

The original sellouts...it's great to hear Mick screaming about pouring on the milk and hearing the crackle of the rice.

Breitbart tells off Gawker

So our favorite crazy right wing extremist Andrew Breitbart left Gawker a voicemail fuming at them for calling the D.C. Holocaust Memorial killer a "right wing extremist". What an interesting world one must live in to defend that term. Whatever.

Andrew Breitbart: Holocaust Museum Killer Was a 'Multiculturalist'

Breitbart flips off protest against forcing children to be soldiers

At least I find the title of his piece agreeable:

Breitbart: I Jerk

David Brooks hearts Obama

Wow, has David Brooks turned around in the last few years. From his latest Op-Ed piece regarding the Cheney/Obama brouhaha (which I hope will continue until the next election):

"But the bottom line is that Obama has taken a series of moderate and time-tested policy compromises. He has preserved and reformed them intelligently. He has fit them into a persuasive framework. By doing that, he has not made us less safe. He has made us more secure."

Here, here.

Who are these bozos who call in on "The Takeaway"?

"Give us your take at my take at your take at thetakeaway.com":

Beep..."I took out a credit card at zero percent interest and after I made the first payment blah blah blah blah blah blah" bliooop.

It's The Takeaway. God this show sucks.

Google ad servers have a sense of humor

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HOT!!!

Matt Taibbi's brilliant Tom Friedman takedown

Thanks to Cajun Boy, Gawker's new night editor for pointing out to us Matt Taibbi's brilliant evisceration of all things Tom Friedman. Sample:

"Like The World is Flat, a book borne of Friedman’s stirring experience of seeing IBM sign in the distance while golfing in Bangalore, Hot, Flat and Crowded is a book whose great insights come when Friedman golfs (on global warming allowing him more winter golf days:“I will still take advantage of it—but I no longer think of it as something I got for free”), looks at Burger King signs (upon seeing a “nightmarish neon blur” of KFC, BK and McDonald’s signs in Texas, he realizes: “We’re on a fool’s errand”), and reads bumper stickers (the “Osama Loves your SUV” sticker he read turns into the thesis of his “Fill ‘er up with Dictators” chapter). This is Friedman’s life: He flies around the world, eats pricey lunches with other rich people and draws conclusions about the future of humanity by looking out his hotel window and counting the Applebee’s signs."

Flat N All That