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A picture of Michael Arrington lighting his cigar with a hundred-dollar bill

By Nick Douglas, 4:41 PM on Tue Aug 22 2006, 1,512 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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Earlier this morning, when I asked about a Business 2.0 photo of blogger Michael Arrington, "Why is he not lighting his cigar with a flaming Ben Franklin?" I honestly meant it. I had not seen the table of contents in the magazine's print version.

Satire is dead in Silicon Valley.

Earlier: A word about the photo in Business 2.0's Michael Arrington profile [Valleywag]

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