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Whether or not you think, like me, that Jack Donaghy is one of, if not the best character in the history of TV, this profile of Alec Baldwin in The New Yorker is worth a look. . . . Things that would make Dan Carlson vote for John McCain. . . . At Paper Cuts, a discussion of "gateway literature." My gateway book was probably Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut. . . . And on a land-mass note, in case you were wondering if Africa is large: yeah, it's really, really large (via Norm Geras).