“PERHAPS IF YOUR GOVERNMENT HAD PAID ‘41′ NOT TO HARVEST ‘43′, WE WOULDN’T BE STUCK IN SUCH ‘NO. 2′ TODAY.”

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BLOGWORTHIES:

Some background on the real poppy problem, and Lisa Casey on the Bush-Karzai summit.

Dave Lindorff at BuzzFlash, on a Sad Six-and-a-Half Years.

Daily Show with Lewis Black, on ending discrimination, via One Good Move.

U.S. Ignores Increased Iraqi Deaths, at PDB.

Bush Seeks to Immunize Telecoms that Aid in Spying, at Crooks & Liars.

Jane Hamsher on Glenn Greenwald’s interview with Chris Dodd.¬†