Slacker Friday - Eric Alterman

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My “Think Again” column is here.  It borrows from the new Future Dictionary of America.  For more on that, go here.

Why does the Iraqi soccer team hate America?

Circulation wars, opinion magazines:

The Nation, 165,000.
The Weekly Standard, 69,700.  (Unclear as to whether this includes the 3,700 free copies distributed in Washington.)
The New Republic, 63,500 .

National Review (bi-monthly) 154,800

Nation circ. is up 71 percent since Bush was elected and 24 percent since the war began.  Just think how high it would go they fired Cockburn.  More here.

Good column on the meaninglessness of media mea-culpas. 

And of course, if Regnery Publishing were credible, it would consider pulling "Unfit for Command" from bookstores and admit to being duped. 

In his column today, MJ Rosenberg writes that by voting to keep Israeli forces in Gaza, the Likud party has presented Al Qaeda with "the gift that will keep on giving."  He also writes that Dennis Ross' book about the peace process is not bad; just skip Ross' conclusion and read his detailed account of how both Barak and Arafat blew it.  Here.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/

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1. I was so excited to see this today! I love the Nation and glad to

see it is kicking butt!