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Strange Loops

Jesse Walker | 7.8.2003 5:03 AM

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You learn something new every day. Today's lesson: Since 1979, there's been a lobby devoted to the interests of … lobbyists.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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