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Yesterday, this NYT magazine piece won a National Magazine Award, the magazine industry’s equivalent to the Oscars.

What timing.

If Petraeus has his timeline right and things go from bad to unthinkable in Pakistan, choosing between a military dictatorship or the Taliban will be a no-brainer.  But it sounds like there’s no guarantee of even having that choice.

According to this Fox news report, Patraeus believes that the Pakistani army is” superior” to the country’s wobbly civilian government and

could conceivably survive even if Zardari’s government falls to the Taliban.

Conceivably? That doesn’t sound so “superior” to me.

Every penny ante blogger with big dreams latched on to this piece in the WSJ a few weeks ago, specifically this line:

It takes about 100,000 unique visitors a month to generate an income of $75,000 a year.

Forget it. Clay Shirky, who has major cred, writes that the WSJ piece is “worthless as a guide to the economics of blogging.”