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With legislators still deadlocked on budget plans, California faces “fiscal Armageddon.”
Five to Instapaper: Five economists who called the crisis on what comes next.
Big Picture selections from the Gaza Strip.
Excellent 2006 map from the London Times of “Shrinking Palestine.”
What you don’t know about Gaza may be contained in this article.
AP Gaza reporter loses apartment, mosque, city, and life to shelling.
Today’s must-read: Proportionality doesn’t play in the Middle East when neither side is prepared to include the other in its suffering.
Moral conundrum: Is it wrong to keep Viagra use a secret?
Facebook accused of supporting mob bosses by allowing them profiles from jail.
Barney Frank: Synthesizing Hegel, acting congressman for gay America.
How to break into Bollywood as an extra; how to break into a Bollywood poster.
What it’s like to watch Bollywood pictures in Mumbai.
Stunning video: Dead poets re-animated, reading their poems.
In Gaza, neoconservatism has died—destroying the peace process is as big a mistake as the Iraq War.
Op: The war isn’t about rockets, it’s about completely defeating a whole people.
“If we want to remain alive, we will have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day.” How to coexist in Gaza.
With reports of rocket fire from Lebanon into Israel, a second front may be opening in the war.
“Being a Christian, I’m pretty well protected by God.” Joe the Plumber is off to cover the fighting.
“We are to be a counterculture—in and not of the world, accepting yet not acquiescent.” Onward Christian hipsters.
Six-year-old steals parents’ car, claims he learned how from Grand Theft Auto.