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Reason Morning Links: Madoff, Milk, and Marauding Avian Gangs

Jesse Walker | 3.13.2009 9:48 AM


- New tensions with China.

- Record numbers seek unemployment benefits.

- Bernie Madoff goes to jail. Prosecutors start looking for co-conspirators.

- Connecticut could crack down on raw milk.

- If you missed the Jon Stewart/Jim Cramer showdown last night, here it is. The most notable thing about the interview, I think, is that Cramer, who ordinarily comes across like an announcer in a WWE match, here appears as a high school sophomore whose voice hasn't quite finished changing, sitting uneasily in the principal's office. (But how did Jon Stewart become the principal of Cable High? I don't know, but you might find some clues in Fonzie's evolution from J.D. dropout to schoolteacher. Or Rush Limbaugh's evolution from shock jock to informal head of the GOP.)

- Pentagon procurement reform, real and phony.

- Facebook: nostalgia sets in.

- Economics teacher practices some economics.

- Birds and game theory.

Books Editor Jesse Walker is the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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