Sarah Palin's "bus tour" to promote her new book simply isn't. Joe McGinniss reports she's in fact flying around America on a private jet, specifically a luxurious "Gulfstream II 12-passenger jet rented from Universal Jet Aviation of Boca Raton, Florida, at a cost of more than $4,000 per hour."
Report: Sarah Palin "bus tour" a hoax, more like "private jet tour"
Games matter because games don't matter, says a philosopher
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This archive of old personal ads is strangely moving
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Kevin Kelly's 84 contemporary heresies, from trivial to genuinely dangerous
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