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Thursday, August 1, 2013
A Fortuitous Coincidence
I hope I am not the only one enjoying how the current episodes of
The Newsroom
involving whistle-blowing and
speaking the truth to and about the rich and mighty
should be overlapping so conveniently with
the current travails of Edward Snowden
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