• Christopher Hitchens: once utopian electoral buzz wears off, nation’ll face pretty much same set of problems as before [Slate] #
• Business preparing to play defense in D.C. on 3 big battlefronts: labor/empt law, arbitration, preemption [NLJ] #
• Pretty neat, Google Reader now translates foreign-language blogs for you [SearchEngineLand h/t @mike_elgan] #
• @gideonstrumpet it’s one of the “laws” of blogging — very hard to predict beforehand which posts’ll draw the biggest traffic #
• “Lawyer Hausfeld Learned of Firing as Chairman From Note on Seat” [Securities Docket] #
• If transcript “is held face down and shaken, thousands of confusion flakes will drift to the ground like snowflakes” [Lowering the Bar] #
• Jamie Gorelick, mentioned as possible AG pick, would bring baggage [Althouse] #
• GM-Chrysler merger = idea that pair of boozers can fix drinking problem by getting married to each other [McArdle] #

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