Number One for 7 December 2010

Hoover, he was a body remover:

• Realism in the comics pages -- Dilbert
  
• The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world that advertising exists -- Kevin Drum
  
• "The 25-Year 'Foreclosure from Hell'" -- WSJ
  
• "Republicans are the Keyser Soze of Politics" -- Enik Rising
  
• Markets in everything: China copies, upgrades, sells Soviet-era fighters and other tech -- WSJ
  
• Elected assessors placate voters -- Enik Rising
  
• West Virginia's Darth Vader -- Rolling Stone
  

Rage Against the Machine, "Wake Up"