balloon-juice.com - 1/5/2009
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The other day, I passed along a particularly offensive post by Michael Goldfarb to Glenn Greenwald. The comment by Goldfarb was disgusting even by his low standards, and I am glad that Glenn took some time to take the Weekly Standard’s OD Original Dungeonmaster to task. What is so ...
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