Guest of the Times

The New York Times subscription barrier is hiding another guest columnist. It's somebody you've heard of, Sarah Vowell, so naturally they want you to pay for the privilege of reading her. Of course, you could always look around the blogosphere for a little bit, and maybe you could find it for free. Yes, donkey o.d. makes the column available for everyone. And today Sarah's got her own state of the union for us:

The state of our union is stunned.

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The state of our union? Screaming for reform. Lately there have been justifiable calls to reform the influence of Congressional lobbyists, the structure of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the publishing industry regarding the veracity of memoirs.

You know the drill. Read the whole thing.