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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Oliver Burkeman

Thursday miscellany: No such thing as a free yard sign

John McCain unveiled a new set of proposals on technology, though he's admitted he can barely send an email himself. [Wall Street Journal]

The Obama and McCain campaigns are charging money for yard signs. "What will they do next?" one Obama supporter wonders. "If I go there and ask to volunteer, will they make me pay to work for them?" [Dallas Morning News]

Obama's Hillbilly Half-Brother Threatening to Derail Campaign ("Long kept a family secret, the overalls-clad, straw-chewing Kentuckian first entered the public spotlight in July, when he drove his 1982 Ford flatbed pickup through the press corps at an Obama rally in order to inform his brother that he caught the skunk that had been living under his front porch"). [The Onion]

How the electrocution of Rielle Hunter's childhood horse explains the John Edwards scandal, sort of. [Gawker]

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