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Our Sudoku Reserves

By The Daily Dish
Dec 12 2008, 8:26 AM ET

By Patrick Appel
P.J. O'Rourke asks for a journalism bailout:

...rescuing print journalism is a twofer. Not only will America's principal source of Sudoku puzzles and Doonesbury be preserved but so will an endangered species: the hard-bitten, cynical, heavy-drinking newshound with a press card in his hatband, a cigarette stub dangling from his lip, and free ringside prize-fight tickets tucked into his vest pocket. These guys don't reproduce in captivity. And there are hardly any of them left in the wild. I checked the bar.



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