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1. hey, national priorities are national priorities
wondering why the president's war speech was slotted unusually early on monday night? simple--he and all his downer talk weren't about to be allowed to upstage the night's main event.
2. and speaking of networks
the fun starts at 00:45.
and screw whatever his biases may be--when you live in a "republic" where the top 1% of families control a third of the nation's wealth, a few banks its financial system and a handful of corporations its mainstream media, a guy like jon stewart isn't a mere comedic frill--he's a fuckin' necessity.
3. i've told you and told you and told you it was coming
Except for fuel costs, U.S. consumers haven't seen much in the way of inflation for almost a decade, so [the coming] broad-based increase in prices will be unprecedented in recent memory.
and no, noblesavage, this isn't an alarmist quote from one of my wild-eyed conspiracy newsletters [although it coulda been two years ago]--this is the CEO of walmart, who's gently tryin to prepare us.
when autumn rolls around and your dollar is buying noticeably less, if you bought gold and silver like i told you to, feel free to thank me--and if you didn't, thank ben bernanke.
and finally, just because mkf lives for clueless unintentional irony,
4. quote of the week
It should be harder to be an artist. You shouldn't just be able to put a song on YouTube and go out on tour.
veteran artist miley cyrus, 18,
dissing presumptuous upstart artists
justin bieber, 17, and rebecca black, 13
