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Media notes  Will Bunch has an important word for his colleagues
in "Torture is not about 'winning the afternoon,' OK?"    Little
Matt Taibbi, in "Tom Friedman Strikes Again", examines Tom
Friedman's poor word-smithery on the analogy front. But I've
always been more interested in Tom Friedman's inability to see
the world around him well enough to construct a metaphor in the
first place. It may be unclear whether swimming without a
bathing suit is necessarily a bad thing, but since Tom Friedman
is one of the guys who stole your bathing suit, I'm not
listening to him. Maybe he's just trying to sell bathing suits.
14:45 BST   Ah, another reminder of Arlen Specter's habit of
making really nice-sounding noises about how we should do good
things instead of bad things, and then going ahead and voting
for bad things. I have no doubt in my mind that Arlen Specter
will now make lots of nice