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Kids Taste Decorative Traffic Creed

Creed Is Totally Underrated by Jonah Weiner (Slate): Well, Weiner has balls, you can certainly say that. [via, oddly enough, a great article on the Great Superfreakonomics Chapter 5 Controversy currently lighting up the blogosphere]

Pandora And Authentic Taste by Rob Horning (Popmatters): Horning read the same NYT piece on the Pandora music service I linked to a few days ago and didn’t much like the assumption that Pandora delivered people a more pure music taste. [via]

A Few Good Kids? by David Goodman (Mother Jones): US military recruiters probably know more about a lot of kids than their parents do. [via]

State Trooper Makes Traffic Stop On Joslen Boulevard by Paul Crossman (Register Star): This is the future of news, people.

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers! by Steve Nissan (McSweeneys): Nissan gets excited about autumn in the same way that a 9-year-old gets excited about a new bike. But with more profanity. [via]