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• An agenda: 'Melanie Phillips' earmuff appeal
• Postmodernists: Zizek and Hari-kiri
• Think tank: rumbling drivel
• Silly word games: GWOT, TWAT, etc
• Dumb bombs: humane 'cluster' munitions
• Infinitely more: 'Melanie' is choking
• Radical cleric: al-Sadr
• Googleverse: Emergent literature
• Real kiwi: Welcome to the desert of the real
• Active denial: Unspeakable weapons
• Reinforcements: State of the Union
• Believable: Luntzspeak
• Overthrow: What's left of Nick Cohen
• The anti-terrorist response: the 'Attack on Yugoslavia'
• Blindingly obvious: Through the eyes of 'Melanie Phillips'
• Slower to get it: Hitchens on women
• Bad behavior: Rumsfeld's last solo
• A disgusting abuse of power: Britney's limo shot
• Stepping down: Goodbye Mr Rumsfeld
• Talking to Noah about the flood: Bush lipsticks the pig
• Some percentage: Hitchens and 'moral idiocy'
• A level that they tolerate: What Iraqis want
• Enemies of civilisation: Who is 'Melanie Phillips'?
• Serious: Reading the Military Commissions Act
• Questioned by experts: Bush's names for torture
• Functioning insanity: Martin Amis on Atta
• Sustainable: ceasefires not worth the bother
• Asymmetric warfare: plotting suicide
• We call it life: global warming, friendly gases
• Departure: double standards in Euston
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