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    "title": "Jersey Shore, Emily Whitehurst, and Merit",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "created": "2012-07-04 19:23:35 UTC",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>So what's the least-bad answer to the \"How come Snooki's big and I'm not\" challenge?\u00c2\u00a0 Probably: \"Because the masses aren't good enough for you.\"\u00c2\u00a0 Millions want to watch eight idiots get drunk in a hot tub.\u00c2\u00a0 Only tens of thousands want to watch Emily Whitehurst sing.\u00c2\u00a0 The market gives people what they want, not what deserves to be wanted.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/07/jersey_shore_an.html\">Jersey Shore, Emily Whitehurst, and Merit, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty</a></em>.</p>\n"
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