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The American Prospect tips us to a new bit of slang. Do you know about the holograms?

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Mother Jones's David Corn engages in a little libertarian speculative fiction.

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There was some kind of rodent in the Rose Garden yesterday. In the rush to identify it, Slate's John Dickerson chimes in with what may be our favorite sentence of the week:

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Brian Beutler shares a theory that Rush Limbaugh might be interested to hear.

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A new hashtag rises in the land, and we spotlight some of our favorite examples:

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