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21 June 2012

Still old news

An epic failure of the free market: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/26/opinion/blow-plantations-prisons-and-profits.html?src=recg

Yawning: Let's do this! http://youtu.be/jGIbUK4nw00

The Texas injustice system personified: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/05/yes-america-we-have-executed-an-innocent-man/257106/?google_editors_picks=true
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