Today's must reads:

• The Bailout Goes Nuclear (MoJo)
• Bill McKibben: Skunks at Copenhagen's Garden Party (MoJo)
• Chart of the Day: The Big Banks Get Bigger (Felix Salmon/Reuters)
• Alberto Gonzales: We Should Have Known We'd Get Caught Purging US Attorneys (TPM)
• Kevin Drum on Climate Denialism & Canadian Drug Reimportation (MoJo)
• The Phantom Menace of Medicare Cost-Shifting (Matt Yglesias)
• "Ayn Rand hated both God and Ronald Reagan. Something to consider for the Tea Partiers. She'd hate them, too." (Democracy)
• Dear Climate Change Deniers: What about the oyster guy? (Ezra Klein)
• "Obama ran against Washington, as all presidents do. To change it, he needs to be cunning + flexible—dare I say, Clintonesque." (Democracy)
• Airmile hackers use mileage credit cards to buy $1 coins that they use to pay the credit card bills (Boing Boing)

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