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News of the Tautological
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Bottom Stories of the Day
“Financial Crisis Panel Issues Useless Report”–headline, Washington Examiner, Jan. 28
The Butler Did It! No, the Maid! Yeah, That’s the Ticket . . .
Tanks rolled into the streets of Cairo today as part of a brutal crackdown on dissent by the dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak. Perhaps coincidentally, yesterday “internet traffic suddenly plummeted in Egypt,” MicroScope.co.uk reports:
Experts are speculating that, after 30 years of rule by President Hosni Mubarak, something has changed in the Egyptian psyche. As the groundswell of protests has increased, communications have closed down. All routes to Egyptian networks are closed and there’s nothing on the routing tables.
But on this column, we like to investigate the old fashioned way. So we rang the Egyptian Embassy for an explanation. We’re not sure who we talked to, but they said that possibly a cleaner might have unplugged the Internet by mistake. …..
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