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PRESIDENTIAL LOSERS: Sen. John McCain securing the Internet for only the rich

>> Senator and Presidential loser John McCain proposed a new bill, the Internet Freedom Act, that would allow broadband and wireless providers to discriminate and prefer certain traffic, giving those who can pay more better access. McCain hopes to ensure that his constituents alone can view “Nailin’ Palin” on high-speed porn while the less fortunate have to wait for it to load. (PC World)

>> Opening in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar is a new Louis Vuitton store, one of the first luxury fashion stores in the region. What Mongolian nomad ISN’T dying for the LV-Stephen Sprouse collab HELLO!? (New York Magazine)

>> After being transferred to house arrest from prison, a 30-year-old Sicilian man asked police to put him back in jail to avoid arguing with his wife. Maybe she was asking for too many Louis Vuitton bags. (Reuters)

>> Gawker reports that while massive lay-offs were going on at Vanity Fair yesterday, among the total scaling back of Conde Nast, VF’s editor Graydon Carter was on a private jet to Bermuda. Maybe it was for a story he was doing about overpaid, bad-mannered magazine editors. (Gawker)

>> And finally, Athens, Ga. sweethearts REM have joined a coalition of musical artists against the Guantanamo Bay prison after reports that guards played pop music at incredible volumes to torture the prisoners. And I thought listening to the latest REM album on normal volume was torture enough. (Entertainment Weekly)

(Photo by Joeff Davis)

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CUTTING IT CLOSE: “Michael”

Given the sheer volume of stuff bursting Flickr’s virtual seams and tumbling out of studios belonging to everyone from fine artists to part-timers at Sears, is there anything new to discover about the overexposed, early 21st-century human form? Self-taught photographer Thomas Dozol wades into this glut of human images in a new solo exhibition at Opal Gallery. And with some aplomb he manages to peel back yet another layer of the onion that is our shared humanity. (more…)

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OBAMA: Debuts his first TV ad of the post-primaries campaign in Georgia and 17 other states today.

STUDY BUDDIES: Florida’s Sen. Bill Nelson and Rep. Allen Boyd have introduced a bill calling for a comprehensive study of water-management needs for the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river system, despite the fact that a three-year process to update the ACF system’s operation manuals is already under way.

LOCH MESS: Lake Lanier and Alabama’s West Point Lake and Lake Walter George are all expected to drop several feet over the next five weeks, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

FLAGPOLE MUSIC AWARDS: R.E.M. won Best Album for Accelerate last night; Flagpole interviews Peter Buck in anticipation of R.E.M.’s show at Lakewood tomorrow.

PUT UP YOUR NUKES: The Savannah River Site seals up its 7 million cubic feet of radioactive waste after 22 years of being an active dump.

FRAUDIAN SLIP: Federal prosecutors indict seven metro Atlantans in an alleged straw-buyer mortgage fraud scam, part of the FBI’s nationwide “Operation Malicious Mortgage.”

THRASHERS COACH: We at least know one thing: The Thrashers either have or haven’t hired a new head coach. (UPDATE: They have.)

MLS COMING TO ATLANTA? Arthur Blank is either looking into bringing us a new Major League Soccer team, a Multiple Listing Service or a Master’s in Library Science. I’m not sure which sounds the most boring.

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PITCH IMPERFECT: Bush throws “high heat”; Hudson dominates but Moylan gives up walk-off homer in the ninth as Braves lose season opener in Washington’s new Nationals Park.

TRAILING OFF: Alabama footpath now connects to southern terminus of Appalachian Trail in Dawson County; Congress could officially designate it as the new ending point of the 2,500-mile trail.

COYOTES: Two caught in DeKalb after killing cats.

ISAIAH RIDER: Former Hawk charged with car theft.

R.E.M.: Has new album, midlife crisis.

PANEL DISCUSSION: Former DA challenges constitutionality of judicial review panels, which reconsider and sometimes reduce prison sentences.

SINO THE TIMES: Perdue takes inaugural Atlanta-to-Shanghai flight to promote Georgia in China.

NOW MUSEUM: Now you don’t. Georgia Museum of Natural History is given a 44-acre archaeological site, which includes Indian mounds and artifacts, but the nine-year-old museum still doesn’t have an exhibition space. Its collections are stored in various buildings around Athens, where it’s based.

WRESTLEMANIA: Simulated mania becomes genuine mania for fans in Orlando.

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