​In 2009, Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi applied the most apt metaphor for Goldman Sachs that anyone has yet come up with, calling the bank "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money." The phrase took off and even two years later was the inspiration for Occupy Wall Street's "squidding" protests yesterday, which resulted in 17 arrests.

DealBook reached Taibbi by phone today, and even he is sick of the squid metaphor.

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​On Friday morning, fire marshals reportedly discovered 10 lbs. of marijuana while searching photographer Jennifer Tzar's SoHo apartment. The Daily News says that Tzar, who has been featured in Rolling Stone, Spin and LIFE, "was arrested at the scene." The search originally commenced in an effort to discover the cause of a 3-alarm fire at 68 Thompson Street, but instead it yielded a head stash weighing as much as a cesarean-delivered baby.

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​Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone wrote another of his highly entertaining, polarizing, acerbic, hyperbolic and metaphor-laden magazine features, online now, this time about Minnesota politician and presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann, who Taibbi, right out of the gate, calls "almost certainly the funniest thing that has ever happened to American presidential politics." And from there, oh boy! "She's trying to look like June Cleaver, but she actually looks like the T2 skeleton posing for a passport photo," he writes. But overshadowing the colorful prose, big broad claims and even the salient points is a faux-media conspiracy, borne mostly of the fact that Taibbi is seen as unlikable, which says that he may have plagiarized. He didn't, but "mistakes were made," as they say. More inside Press Clips, our daily media column.

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​On Sunday night, Rolling Stone revealed to the world the disturbing existence of a United States "kill team," the members of which actively targeted, killed, mutilated, and photographed innocent citizens of Afghanistan. "[A]fter six hard months soldiering in Afghanistan, a group of American infantrymen reached a momentous decision: It was finally time to kill a haji," writes Mark Boal in the feature made available last night, and sure to be a blockbuster by today's end. Soldiers from the Bravo Company's 3rd Platoon, a section of the 5th Stryker Brigade, murdered at least four unarmed civilians and took "scores of photos" celebrating their kills. Though the Pentagon attempted to suppress the pictures, lest they find themselves amid another Abu Ghraib-style scandal, Rolling Stone has obtained 150 of the photos. Their brutality is beyond description.

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Day 2

​If the (little) reporting and (excessive) analysis surrounding Lara Logan's assault in Egypt have taught us anything, it's that most people are somewhat insensitive or otherwise unprepared and unable to talk about rape without offending, and the Internet can be an awful place. Also, exploitation runs rampant, whether it's a radical right-winger taking the opportunity to attack Islam or the New York Post trading on the combination of Logan's horrific ordeal and reputation as something of a sex symbol for a second consecutive newspaper cover. We wonder "Why?" -- plus, a correction on Justin Bieber's abortion views, trouble at Forbes and the return of Spy magazine, inside Press Clips, our daily media round-up.

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​Doree Shafrir -- who was responsible for, among other things, being one-half of the author of the blog-to-book phenomenon that was Postcards from Yo Momma and being responsible for the "Hipster Grifter" story during her tenure at the New York Observer in addition to being among the few to survive two separate tenures at Gawker.com -- has taken a gig with Rolling Stone as RollingStone.com's senior editor, she just announced on her Tumblr.

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​Dan Abrams' news operation Mediaite loses a founding staff member. New York Magazine snubs New York Magazine. Alec Baldwin is New York's hot new media critic -- Guest of a Guest? Not so much. -- and Emily Smith at Page Six is having some growing pains sans-Richard Johnson, it'd appear. Press Clips, Day 14, Happy Hour Edition, right here:

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