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Online reading that’s influencing me

Are we dumb or just numb?

It is frightening in the extreme when lying matters not at all to a free people.  [→ READ ]

Phantom WMDs

We are clearly being set up to put the whole issue of WMDs down the memory hole.  [→ READ ]

Dean: Equal rights is the responsibility of every American

Those of us who came of age during the civil rights movement have long understood that the strength of America lies in our commitment to equal rights under the law for everyone.  [→ READ ]

Fighting is over but the deaths go on

Unexploded ordnance and landmines littering northern Iraq have killed or maimed more people — many of them children — since the end of the war than during the fighting.  [→ READ ]

I have seen the future of music and its name is iTunes

Apple’s new online music-buying system is everything Napster promised to be — cheap, easy and, best of all, legal.  [→ READ ]

Matters of emphasis

NYT: Krugman: According to the ABC report, the real reason for the war was that the administration ‘wanted to make a statement.’  [→ READ ]

[via Kalilily Time]