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- Prison reform is a thankless job. It will get him few votes in Virginia, but Jim Webb is doing it anyway. Remarkable. Makes me even more glad that Obama didn't choose him as VP - he's been doing some good work in Congress. Glenn Greenwald goes over some of the details here: http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/03/28/webb/index.html

- Simon Johnson has an article in The Atlantic about the financial crisis that applies some of the lessons he learned about emerging markets to our current economic crisis. His conclusions are sort of terrifying, and the article is a must read: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200905/imf-advice

- Esau Mwamwaya is a singer from Malawi who moved to London and opened a secondhand furniture shop. Radioclit are a London based production team whose studio is on the same street as the furniture shop. A chance meeting turned into a collaboration, and now they are The Very Best. They released a free mixtape last year. It is unadulterated joy, and it is available here: http://electrorash.com/esau-mwamwaya-radioclit-are-the-very-best/. If you don't hear at least one song that makes you smile from ear to ear, I have some bad news for you: your soul is dead.

- If The Very Best makes you too ecstatic to go about your day, you can feel free to listen to Brooklyn MC/producer El-P's free mixtape: "WeAreAllGoingToBurnInHellMeggaMixx2", which will definitely ruin your whole day. 

- On the free mixtape tip, you can also download the new mixtape from Themselves, entitled theFREEhoudini, which is available in exchange for your email address at anticon. Bizarre and noisy and not for the faint of heart.