• Wal-Mart under pressure to remove posters from the front of its stores advertising Brokeback Mountain. Since the film didn’t break the $100 million barrier, the American Family Association alleges, Wal-Mart must be trying to normalize homosexuality. I won’t quit you, red states.
• The NYTimes wants to protect you from infomercials. Actually, they just want their target audience to experience the vicarious tingle of shopper slumming.
• A lede says it all, “One of the biggest money problems for Americans today is overspending on parakeet funerals.”
• Black construction barriers being removed around Apple’s giant glass cube store in Manhattan. Bow before the almighty.

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