themonkeycage.org - 1/15/2009
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Like Henry’s post below, I was going to start my post on Michael McDonald’s article by quoting the same delicious snark — albeit without Henry’s knowledgeable-and-therefore-dorky asides about Battlestar Galactica . Oh, and I wanted to add a graph.
And, like ...
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