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By Amanda Heller
April 19, 2009

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We pledge allegiance to the state of paranoid delusion, or at least we did until recently, when Donald Rumsfeld's "known unknowns" and "unknown knowns" were replaced by AIG and GM as the Creatures from the Black Lagoon of the American imaginary. (Full article: 649 words)

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