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A trip through the wires tubes that are the Internets:

Olberman on Presidential Lying: "No critic, no commentator, no reluctant Republican in the Senate, has ever said anything that any responsible person could even have exaggerated into the slander you spoke in Nevada on Monday night, nor the slander you spoke in California on Tuesday, nor the slander you spoke in Arizona on Wednesday... nor whatever is next. You have dishonored your party, sir -- you have dishonored your supporters -- you have dishonored yourself." Read more here.

How to spin a comma: "[T]he President is making the point is, when you look at a history book, a 10-month period is a comma. Now, some people have tried to say, how dare the President refer to this as a comma; he's being glib about the deaths of Americans. That's outrageous, and the people who say that know it. What they're trying to is, willingly or not, wrench a statement out of context and try to use that as an opportunity to accuse a President who is deeply aware of the human cost of war of being calloused about those costs. It's just not true." Read more here.

When In Doubt, Blame Soros

Incompetance Will Continue in FEMA, Be Sure of It.

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John Scalzi has an interesting post this morning (well, interesting if you're a writer anyway) about the use of punctuation, prompted by a little battle he is having with the copy editor for his new book.
Today's question come to us courtesy of Ivy League white-reggae band Vampire Weekend: