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Not only are major papers running headlines about the site becoming a laughingstock, even respected liberals are admitting that they would have flipped out had Bush tried something similar. Place your bets: How much longer can the PR beating go on before someone throws in the towel? Ace thinks it’ll be gone — or at least substantially overhauled to rid it of the “snazzy Gestapo color scheme” — by 6 p.m. ET. I’m thinking they’re going to stick with it for the long haul for the reason MKH gives here: Design regression from Fight the Smears to #AttackWatch is metaphor...

A 14-year old boy in North Dakota was cited with a class C felony after bringing his PSP loaded with digital images of pornography to school. The Bismarck Tribune reports: "Bismarck Police Lt. Dan Donlin said staff at Wachter Middle School called police after finding pornography on the boy's PSP. The boy was charged with promoting obscenity to minors for showing other students the pornography. Donlin said the boy also was cited with simple assault, a misdemeanor, for scratching another student with a key. Donlin said the student who was scratched was the one who told school officials that the...