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Like the CBC, I'm recycling content today. Bear with me.

http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2005_08.php#006386

"It's a fair bet that George W. Bush is the only person in the entire United States who chose those three books to read on vacation," Osnos said.

No, I swear to God, he said it. That would be PublicAffairs publisher Peter Osnos, reacting to a White House press release (read: comically obvious lie) that Bush is reading Salt: A World History, Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar and The Great Influenza on his five-week vacation. (Note to our Canadian and European readers: We're serious. Five weeks. Send help.) I could almost buy the salt and flu books, but why did they have to get greedy and claim he was reading Russian history? Does anyone believe that? Even Dick Cheney is shaking his head and muttering "Bullshit" somewhere.

House report (with a twist)

Today's email reads:

First off, Helen is dead, David is now the new Helen. Well just for today.
Which is Stardate 211.87.9 according to Dan.

Things are procceding as follows;

( I'm certainly relieved to hear about the reactor cores. )