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It's the Fourth of July. Why Are You Online?

Jesse Walker | 7.4.2005 11:54 AM

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If you absolutely have to surf the Web today -- and really, you ought to be setting off firecrackers and eating barbecue in a park somewhere instead -- then Radley Balko's Independence Day column is worth a read.

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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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