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Twelve O'Clock Links

Jesse Walker | 1.26.2009 12:00 PM

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* How Gitmo got worse.

* Julian Sanchez imagines virtual picket lines.

* Steven Johnson prefers modern video games to Sorry, Battleship, and Candy Land.

* Bill Kauffman finds the regionalist in Kurt Vonnegut.

* George W. Bush's farewell song.

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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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