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• “[Phil] Donohue was fired because he was against the Iraq war” [Crooks and Liars]

• “By and large, the Internet — including blogs — reacts to stories and the way full-time journalists tell them.” [Dean's World]
• Men between the ages of 30 and 54 got into their kids’ Douglas Coupland, are now “voluntarily dropping out of work, unable to find a job that interests them, and preferring instead to live at home, doing things that they find more fulfilling.” Name one thing that is more fulfilling than alienating your family. [MoJo]
• “Israel can’t shoot one bullet without America’s permission.” [American Leftist]

Oh! How we all laughed when we read earlier this week about Senator Ted Stevens’ (R-AK) dizzying cluelessness about the internet. But what if Stevens, I wondered, woke up one day and found himself, Kafka-like, to be a salesman for Best Buy?

• 9:00 AM: Ted finally gives up after searching half-an-hour for the 8-track tape department.
• 11:30 AM:Stevens is asked to show how an iPod works but defers after he is unable to locate the crank.
• 2:00 PM:Ted watches some pre-teen customers trying out the video games and is impressed by how perfectly they sync their hand movements to the movie playing on the screen.
• 3:30 PM: Stevens’ coworkers fail to see the need for a “wireless demonstration hoop” to convince the public of their “miraculous claims”.
• 4:30 PM: Ted is called into his supervisor’s office where he is promoted to assistant manager.