start here with part 1<\/a>. When I was getting a root canal fill-in on Monday, the TV in the room was tuned to an interview with one of the writers of this article. Unfortunately, that interview was conducted by Fox News. So rather than ask about the implications of a massive, out-of-control, and unaccountable intelligence community, the interviewer asked why the White House was allowed to read the article beforehand. The implication was that the Washington Post was working with our Indonesian Muslim president to overthrow America by stripping its massive, out-of-control and unaccountable intelligence community of its power. I didn’t ask the endodontist to change the channel, because I was afraid she was a hardcore Fox News devotee and would take my request as a sign that she should go easy on the anesthesia.<\/p>\n* * *<\/p>\n
Or you can just watch Mortal Konstruction:<\/p>\n
In honor of Comic-Con, there isn’t a single comics-related link in this week’s Unrequired Reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,22,4,17,23],"tags":[742,1086,1087,1085],"class_list":["post-5450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-literature","category-politics-explicit","category-rembrandt","tag-bill-murray","tag-britney-spears","tag-mortal-kombat","tag-top-secret-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1pU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1926,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-feb-29-2008","url_meta":{"origin":5450,"position":0},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Feb. 29, 2008","author":"Gil","date":"February 29, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Is it Friday already? 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