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Reason November 2008 Matt Welch	Scared Straight Attending a major-party political convention is a lot like putting a metal dish into a microwave. You know something bad's going to happen, but after four years you need to be reminded of the acrid smell.
Reason November 2008 Gustavo Arellano	Ask a Mexican In 2004 the OC Weekly asked its lone Latino staffer to answer questions from white people about their puzzling brown brethren. Thus began the scabrous, politically incorrect, and culturally informative "Ask a Mexican!" column, now syndicated in 37 papers nationwide.
Reason November 2008 Radley Balko	Publius Blogs In some communities, the targets of anonymous blogs are trying to crack down on their Internet critics with a vengeance.
Reason November 2008 Mike Riggs	Digital Drinks JV Games is pressured to change the name of its Wii Beer Pong game to Pong Toss, and to replace its pixelated cups of beer with pixelated cups of water.
Reason November 2008 Jacob Sullum	Follow State Law, Go Directly to Jail The Drug Enforcement Administration has raided more than 60 medical marijuana dispensaries in the last two years. Because the deck is stacked against them, dispensary operators facing federal drug charges typically plead guilty.
Reason November 2008 Greg Beato	Garden Gnome Politics For those with the unfettered freedom to landscape, lawns are like blogs, only with weeds.
Reason November 2008 Jesse Walker	Beyond the Fairness Doctrine Barack Obama says he wouldn't reintroduce the Federal Communications Commission's most notorious speech-squashing regulation. But there are more mundane reasons to fear the next FCC.
Reason November 2008 Gillespie & Welch	30 Years of Dallas The TV show that won the Cold War
Reason November 2008 Mike Riggs	Emo Rescue Emo -- a musical subculture defined by melodramatic, sometimes whiny lyrics delivered over distorted guitars -- faces a global assault.
Fast Company November 2008 Arianne Cohen	Lojack for Laptops Companies lose billions of dollars a year in hardware and data. Here's how the good guys try to get the stuff back.
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