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Brief Respite

by David Kurtz
08.29.12 | 8:35 am

Take a moment to purge your mind of politics and instead consider a world where two planets together orbit two stars, which in turn orbit each other.

Okay, now back to work.

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David Kurtz is TPM's editor at large.
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