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Having the last laugh

From Vanity Fair, William Langewiesche on the House of War: After Ramush Haradinaj led Kosovo’s bloody fight for independence from Serbia, becoming provisional prime minister, he was tried for war crimes by the U.N. tribunal in The Hague; in a clash of 21st-century justice and 15th-century laws, Haradinaj came out the winner. From Scientific American, a special report on the Future of the Poles. The Flying Spaghetti Monster: The American military space program in perpetual crisis. Here are fifty things you might not know about Barack Obama. Marc Ambinder on the secrets of Obama's success. Learning from Prop. 8: Is a 52-48 vote really enough to prove that the courts overstepped on gay marriage? From CJR, an interview with FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver on polling, politics, and the consolidation of the blogosphere. The real crime fighters, conservatives or liberals? Onion Nation: If its absurdist twists and wicked parodies of conventional journalism are just a joke, the country's leading satirical newspaper is having the last laugh. Sam Tanenhaus reviews Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton Gellman. The lolcats, the Internet's most famous felines, may be hilarious — but in their yearning, there is nothing less than the tragedy of the human condition. A new study finds that both more police officers and more community building are essential in reducing crime