• ProPublica Wins MacArthur Foundation Award (ProPublica) They deserve it.
• Joe The Plumber Is Now A Union Man (Crooks and Liars) Hypocrisy much?
• Rupert Murdoch took the BuzzFeed ‘Which Billionaire Tycoon Are You?’ quiz (Business Insider) It said that he was Rupert Murdoch
• The Chevron Guarantee: Our well won’t explode…or your pizza is free! (Philly.com)  Not the Onion, not a parody, it’s real, God help us all.
• Five surveillance myths stalling NSA reform, debunked  (The Guardian)
• A Walmart Worker Explains Why Walmart’s Customer Service Is Horrible (Gawker) Nickel tour:  They are too cheap to give worker to have the time to help you.
• An FT story lets Wall Street off the hook (Columbia Journalism Review) They studiously ignore the fact that Wall Street tacitly (and sometimes actively) encouraged this fraud because they made more money that way.
• F-35 Delayed After Fourth Prototype Becomes Self-Aware And Has To Be Destroyed (Duffelblog)

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