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UPDATE: Reader Richard Russell writes:

Thank you so much for linking to that excellent deal! I would never have seen it otherwise, and I am sure they will sell out in a few minutes.

Another reason to have Instapundit as my home page!

Glad to be of help. They’re not sold out yet. Also, if you follow the link above they’re running a new “lightning deal” every couple of hours.

TED TURNER ON KIM JONG IL BACK IN 2005. Ted thought he was swell. Of course. Plus a much bigger roundup of reactions, including Josh Trevino’s tweet of the year: “I’d like to think God let Havel and Hitchens pick the third.”

BLS QUESTIONS: Perdue Media Team Used Confidential Data To Spin Jobs Reports: Federal officials question legality of getting employment info before official release. “Since as early as January 2011, and perhaps before then, Gov. Bev Perdue’s press office has received access to confidential employment data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics hours if not days before its scheduled release, quite likely in violation of federal law. The governor’s staff used its early access to massage the monthly employment press release that reported jobs data to the public.”

RAND SIMERG ON VACLAV HAVEL: “Don’t expect the media to make a big deal of it. He was the wrong kind of dissenter.”

Plus this: “A country can do a lot worse than having a dissident playwright as a president. Mamet, 2012!”

Related: Bruce Bawer: Why We Need More Leaders Like Vaclav Havel. Mamet, 2012!

CALLING OBAMA’S BLUFF on taxes and spending.

LARRY RIBSTEIN: Abolishing Corporate Personhood: Still Stupid.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Looking at Rising College Costs and Whether Professors Benefit. Not as much as administrators, in my opinion.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: European “Bank Walk” Turning into a Jog: Run Next? “The wonder is that anybody is keeping any money at all in Greek banks. There is no good reason why an individual or company would want to put their assets in one of the dodgiest countries around where the banks are under threat, the government is desperate and an unstoppable financial crisis could break out at any moment.”

MARCO RUBIO SPEAKS OUT on opportunity, immigration and prosperity.

PENN JILLETTE SAYS “OBAMA IS WICKED SMART.” A reader emails: “The given subject of the video,’An Atheist’s Guide to the 2012 election’ isn’t what caught my attention. It’s that near the beginning he calls Obama ‘wicked smart’ and says he’s a great speaker! I didn’t listen any further. I lost a lot of respect for him.”

I have to say that the evidence for Obama’s being especially bright is unclear.

UPDATE: Reader Brett Rogers responds to Jillette: “Bullshit.” Heh.

NAKED AMBITION: “The word ‘statuesque’ seemed made for Audrey Munson. Dreamy and pale, slender and softly curved, Audrey played muse to a generation of New York City sculptors at the turn of the 20th century. Her undraped figure still graces Central Park, the Metropolitan Museum and the Municipal Building. Though she tried to translate her beauty to the new medium of film, her career ended suddenly as Modernism — and her 30s — arrived.”

EUROPE: Why The Euro Turkey Is Well And Truly Stuffed.

HEH: Paul Krugman inadvertently demonstrates he doesn’t cook: “While attempting to rip Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul and his adherents to shreds in his latest piece, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman seems to have revealed more about his domestic life than he intended. . . . Clearly Mr. Krugman does spend his Sundays inviting Princeton colleagues over for coffee and home-made cakes. For if he did, he would know that flour, eggs, sugar and virtually any other food item – the stuff we need to stay alive — has risen by a heck of a lot more than 4.5 percent in the past three years.”

FINALLY: ‘I Just Made Love’ app lets you tell the world where and when – and thousands already have. “Sharing apps such as Foursquare already let us share where we eat, drink and shop. Now ‘I Just Made Love’ lets you log and GPS-tag your private life in just the same way – and, bizarrely, some people seem to want to. The Android app has been downloaded 10,000 times, and rated five stars by dozens of users.”