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Currently in Salon: Friday June 4, 2010

Worst! Calls! Ever! Slide show: Umpire Jim Joyce's error ruined Armando Galarraga's perfect game. How does it stack up against history? By King Kaufman

Open Salon The Perfect Game: Ruined? "Please Keep The Farm for my Boys" Sweet Home Alabama Israel Counts on a U.S. Government for Sale

Your sons' summer vacation reading list From amphibian tales to sinister sci-fi, your guide to keeping your boys reading throughout the holiday months By Amy Reiter

"Get Him to the Greek": '30s screwball bromance Russell Brand and Jonah Hill are terrific in this raunchy rock-god farce with a sublimely weird cameo: Paul Krugman By Andrew O'Hehir

Captured and detained by Israel, an American tells his story After two days in an Israeli jail, 64-year-old Paul Larudee speaks out Anika Anand

"Hurt Locker's" illegal downloading wars A lawsuit pits a misguided war-movie producer against shrill, free-culture extremists -- and everybody loses By Sam Adams

No, this isn't "Watergate" (and never will be) Republicans have fantasized about a Democratic "Watergate" for decades. Can they still remember the real thing? By Joe Conason

How I became a pothead I finally quit weed when I quit alcohol -- but I firmly believe it should be legal By Cary Tennis

How the World Works Waiting for a monster jobs report The right price for BP's disaster

War Room Rand Paul ordered to stop playing Rush Anthony Weiner calls Turkey our "former ally" White House made itself vulnerable to bogus bribe charges Edward Peck: Israel "smearing" the opposition Bush: I'd torture again Nikki Haley faces another affair rumor at debate Poll: Sharron Angle leads in Nevada American citizen among flotilla dead Larry Craig's surreal "Daily Show" cameo Israel's half-war against Gaza

Feds send BP $69M bill as Obama plans trip to Gulf Meanwhile, confusion reigns over permits for further drilling MATTHEW DALY

BP spill forces choice between ecology and economy Emergency workers can save coastline or save marshlands, but not both JAY REEVES and MATT SEDENSKY

Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson go to the dogs The avant-garde power couple bring a canine concert to Sydney. What, no Snoop? By Mary Elizabeth Williams

Broadsheet All (abortion) politics is local Behind domestic workers' new bill of rights Rue McClanahan: TV's original cougar Feminist war over smut rages on

Facebook founder sweats it out Zuckerberg's evasions about FB's evolving privacy policies raise new questions about the company's intentions Dan Gillmor

Selig's statement on call that cost perfect game Commissioner will not reverse the Joyce decision The Associated Press

Doubling down in Afghanistan Why the U.S. government stubbornly refuses to fold a losing hand By William Astore

High school students face hard lesson in economics Budget cuts at every level put kids in a bind over resources, class sizes, and more TERENCE CHEA and CHRISTINE ARMARIO

Jindal and the right on oil spill: Shill, baby, shill! Faced with a devastating oil spill, Louisiana's governor demands ... more drilling? By Joseph Romm

Chile police detain Joran van der Sloot in Peru killing Suspect in Natalee Holloway disappearance being held in Santiago EVA VERGARA

Give Galarraga a perfect game! Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of boring sports -- and the record books are already stuck with syringes By Ethan Sherwood Strauss

Calif. GOP gov race tightens as attacks intensify June 8 primary looms, Meg Whitman's lead shrinks, and candidates try to prove who is more conservative JULIET WILLIAMS

Which unlikely icon will clean up after BP next? Cameron, Costner and Redford are taking a crack -- we nominate a few more. Ariel, it's your chance to shine! By Mary Elizabeth Williams

"The Cove" screening canceled in Tokyo after protests Japanese film distributor met with outrage, claims of betrayal YURI KAGEYAMA

Glenn Greenwald The Israeli flotilla attack: victimhood, aggression and tribalism Ken Salazar, corporatism and the BP oil spill

To walk in Palestinian shoes is to experience actual persecution The Palestinian experience is not the experience of animals or terrorists. It is a human experience Philip Weiss

Rethinking the origins of the Tea Party They're not so unfamiliar or brand-new By John Sides

Goodbye to the Redneck Riviera If Obama lets us stay confused about who's in charge, the oil on Southern beaches is going to get all over him too By Robert Reich

BP cuts pipe, plans to lower cap over Gulf spill BP cuts pipe irregularly, making the capping process more difficult GREG BLUESTEIN

Israel's use of captured video draws criticism The Foreign Press Association demands that Israel stop using footage it confiscated from journalists AMY TEIBEL

Gulf spill workers complaining of flulike symptoms Gulf oil spill workers have been reporting flulike symptoms including nausea and headaches NOAKI SCHWARTZ and MATTHEW BROWN

BP says unprepared for Gulf spill; pipe awaits cut BP head acknowledges that the oil company was unprepared for a catastrophe as plans are made to stop the leak MELISSA NELSON and ADAM GELLER

British climber dies after reaching Everest summit A British climber dies hours after reaching the summit of Mt. Everest.

Great wine: Global warming victim? What will happen when classic wine regions get too hot to grow their signature grapes? We're already finding out By Steven Kolpan

My baby is too boring to blog about Does that make me a bad parent -- or a good one? By John R. Barry

BP trying to put a lid on the Gulf oil gusher Flow of crude could temporarily increase by up to 20 percent GREG BLUESTEIN

Holloway suspect accused in Alabama extortion U.S. Attorney says Joran van der Sloot tried to get $250,000 in exchange for location of missing girl's body

Golden Girl Rue McClanahan dies Betty White now lone survivor of the original quartet

Galarraga robbed? MLB reviewing ump's call Call cost Detroit pitcher a perfect game BEN WALKER

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