1.0 link 145612 <![CDATA[Somali Pirates: "Daily Show" On The Case (VIDEO)]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/21/somali-pirates-daily-show_n_145612.html So, everyone likes pirates. Dressing like them, talking like them. Later, riding on Disney rollercoasters dedicated to their illustrated history of pillage and Johnny Depp-style ambisexuality. But even as the media focuses on the Somali pirate saga as one of their Shiny New Post-Election Things, it's worth noting that there are important issues knit up in the story that deserve attention. In a thoughtful post yesterday, Matthew Yglesias elucidated one of them:

But of course there are real policy issues...
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