Currently in Salon

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  How dare you criticize wasteful defense spending!
  So you think it's only terrorist-appeasing lefties who are down on Pentagon profligacy? Think again
  By David Sirota
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  Have yourself a very merry black Friday
  The author of "Scroogenomics" explains why holiday shopping is a drain on the wallet and the holiday spirit
  By Mary Elizabeth Williams
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  Stalk of shame
  Don't let that unused celery wither and yellow in your fridge. Show it a little respect for delicious results
  by Francis Lam
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  One last ride for the ice cream man
  It should be too cold for him to come around, and he knows it
  By Francis Lam
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  "The Road": Post-apocalypse now
  Director John Hillcoat and his star, Viggo Mortensen, improve on the mannered machismo of Cormac McCarthy's novel
  By Stephanie Zacharek
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  Palin, Prejean: Beastly treatment for beauties
  The governor turned author must fight what the pageant queen learned: Politics and hotness make strange bedfellows
  By Gene Lyons
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  An immigrant Thanksgiving
  Growing up with the stigma of a turkey-averse people
  by Francis Lam
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  Tom the Dancing Bug
  A lady from the East and a half-breed ripsnorter from Colorado duke it out at the Oklahoma roundup
  By Ruben Bolling
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  Last gasp for American foie gras?
  An environmental lawsuit threatens the U.S.'s biggest producer of a controversial delicacy
  By Thomas Rogers
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  I'm thankful I'm not President Obama
  Backers deride Katrina-style negligence, haters hate him more each day. Can this presidency be saved? Of course
  Joan Walsh