Googling American Values


	Googling American Values

Joshua Zumbrun

7-3-2008 3:33 PM

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Joshua Zumbrun says:

Great story -- gotta read through to the kicker. I wonder if they read about this court case and decided to write about it immediately, or only committed to the story once somebody came up with that pun.

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