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No Labs Love for Google Apps. This domain’s e‐mail account is hosted by Google Apps — and I use Mail.app to read my e‐mail — so the fact that GApps seems to be branched off from all the cool Gmail features is an annoyance for me, too. Good to hear that someone’s trying to fix it.

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From a recent episode of Get Your War On.

Accounts Payable
Look, man, if McCain is elected, I can guarantee you will never be bored. Because America’s going to be a dynamic, exciting country again!
Accounts Receivable
Because everything’s gonna be on fire.
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We didn’t see much of the Bradley effect last night, but now we might have to invent the “Stevens effect” — reluctance to admit to pollsters that you would vote for a convicted felon.

Brendan
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Used on my “About” page. 

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The rules are explicit here — if you have consensual sexual relations with anyone not legally old enough to consent to such behavior, it’s statutory rape regardless of whether they turned themselves into an adult by making a wish to a Zoltar machine. [Elizabeth] Perkins’ character worked with Josh Baskin (the Tom Hanks character) in New York City when the age of consent was 15 years old. Well, Baskin was only 13 at the time. So there you go.

Bill Simmons
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Get Your War On

GYWO has been on fire these past few weeks. Something about its line-drawn style translates very well from stills to video.

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Just a quick note on language, but I noticed a number of deal critics throughout the day refer to the bailout package as involving “nearly $1 trillion.” I’m outraged, too, but you need to be careful when rounding very large numbers. If somebody was trying to sell you a $7 hamburger, you might get upset and complain that it cost “nearly $10” but you certainly wouldn’t complain that it cost “nearly $300 billion.”

Matthew Yglesias