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[novapsyche]

News: Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations

Not news: Obama stops wearing flag pin

News: All 3,200 South African miners pulled to safety

Not news: Wal-Mart opens holiday price war

News: Bird flu virus mutating into human-unfriendly form

Not news: Eh, I'm tired of hunting for not-news. (Most entertainment "news" would fall under this category and thus I won't go for the easy pickings.)

Comments

[entheo.livejournal.com]

how about this for not-news?

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Ayup!

[pstscrpt.livejournal.com]

Maybe this isn't the best example of it (vs., say, the debate on whether to talk to Iran and Syria), but I really like Obama's willingness to defy protocol when it doesn't make sense. And just watch, someone is shortly going to use it as an excuse to call him inexperienced again.