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As the always sage Mike Madden pointed out today via Twitter, there's a lot of stuff out there that is not news.  But it gets covered as though it were anyway.  We understand this on a lot of levels: the media is constantly expected to produce and when there are not enough shark attacks of Chelsea Clinton weddings, they have to make news out of something, right? More»

Poor David Weigel.  All he wanted to do was vent.  But, it cost him his job as a Washington Post political blogger. More»