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Obama: Iraq War Backers Now Seek to Derail Iran Nuclear Deal: “The choice we face is ultimately between diplomacy and some form of war,” said Obama, and you know damn well where the GOP stands on that issue, and even if you don’t, Lindsey Graham will be happy to remind you. (Washington Post)

Joe Biden Isn’t Likely to Outperform His Other Presidential Runs: If nothing else, people may have forgotten how hard it is to get him to stop talking sometimes. (The Daily Beast)

Led Zeppelin’s 74 Songs, Ranked: Just one person’s opinion, of course. “Moby Dick” finished dead last. But what finished first? (Vulture)

What Jeb Bush’s ‘Gaffe’ on Women’s Health Really Tells Us: It’s not that he’s anti-woman, we already knew that. It’s that Jeb isn’t a very good campaigner. (Washington Post)

Five Times Pop Culture Said Hedgehogs Deserved It: Proof that anything can be a trend if you want it bad enough. (AV Club)

Katha Pollitt: How to Really Defend Planned Parenthood: As always, Pollitt is vivid and incisive and talking very good sense here. “The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary,” she writes. (New York Times)

Americans Say Racism Is a Bigger Problem Today Than at Any Point in the Past 20 Years: Putting the lie to the ‘post-racial’ trope for the time being…. (Wonkblog)

The GOP’s Recipe for Disaster: You guessed it—the threat of further government shutdowns. Because the Republican Party is awful at governing, and when it doesn’t get what it wants, it makes sure everyone else suffers too. (Washington Monthly)

New Alice In Chains Book Reveals Courtney Love’s Suspicion That Kurt Cobain Didn’t Commit Suicide: If Courtney Love isn’t sure what happened, then that suggests she didn’t have Kurt killed. Or maybe that’s what she wants us to think….. (Stereogum)

This Was Supposed to Be the Strongest GOP Field in Decades. Yet Donald Trump Is Leading It: Of course, I never bought into that bushwah, the Republican Party hasn’t had a really good politician since Reagan—wait, you’re counting George W. Bush? Don’t make me laugh. Every year it’s a struggle to figure out which disgrace should be the nominee, and 2016 is no exception. (Ezra Klein/Vox)

Keith Richards Explains Why Sgt. Pepper Was Rubbish: And disses the Stones’ Satanic Majesties Request in the same breath. Hm. (Esquire)

Here’s the song “In Another Land” off Their Satanic Majesties Request, in Kenneth Anger’s Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome: