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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