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Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights? Orson Scott Card, who's Democrat, on the actual crisis, the responsability of the Democrats and bad journalism.

36 Hours in Paris. According to the NYT, Le Marais is a hot spot.

10 reasons why newspapers won't reinvent news. Tough love for old-fashioned journalism. [via]

A Lebanese trade union is planning to sue Israel for claiming that the Jewish state has propriety over traditional Arab cuisine such as falafel, tabbouleh and hummus. Now it's war.

Connecticut Ruling Overturns Ban on Same-Sex Marriage, becoming the third american state to legalize same-sex marriage.

Regular Ikea's stuff is too dull for you ? Steal some ideas here.

Donna Brazile on this US presidential campaign for the New Yorker Festival : Don't let no one take us back.

Google proposes $4.4 trillion clean energy plan. Good thing they DO believe in global warming.

But what you should take away from this isn't that bars are completely meaningless. They are, after all, there for a reason, which is to give you a "good enough" estimate of your ability to make a call. Just take the bars with a (very large) grain of salt when the service you get doesn't seem to match up with what the bars tell you, because the relationship between bars and call quality is much more of an art than a science.

Four bars? The disconnect between bars and cell signal.