Eric Florack on April 24th, 2007

(Sigh)

 Billy, will you please make some indication of when Taibbi ISN’T PO’d at someone?

And will you please tell me why, given his other rants, I shouldn’t think that what’s got him ranting about rap is the profits

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davidl on April 24th, 2007

You might recall that one reason John “Breck Girl” Edwards ran  for vice president is that he would have lost his Senate seat if he ran for re-election.   A.J. Strata, Strata-Sphere, reports that Nebraska Republicans war preparing to rinse

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Eric Florack on April 24th, 2007

Well, kinda.

All this nonsense Sheryl Crow and toilet paper, David’s touched on… with rubber gloves, I trust…

 

But it occurred to me we’d already written on all of this both last month, and back to 2002… Follow all the

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davidl on April 24th, 2007

Clarence Page

Critics of vulgar, violent gangster-style rap music make a mistake when they write off the rap stars as stupid, immoral and self-destructive. They may be immoral and self-destructive, but they’re not stupid. As one of my readers observed in a

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Eric Florack on April 24th, 2007

San Fran Chron–(04-23) 19:24 PDT MENLO PARK — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam was killed today doing what he had done for more than four decades: chasing down a great story.

In many ways, Halberstam was the inspiration for

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Eric Florack on April 24th, 2007

Yeah, Billy, I saw that New Cars disk about a month ago, after I found it being played on of all places, WKPQ, over in Hornell, sometime last October or November, it must have been, during afternoon drive. I tuned

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Eric Florack on April 24th, 2007

Steven Taylor, posting at OTB, links a story today regarding the firing of a VT professor:

An adjunct professor was fired after leading a classroom discussion about the Virginia Tech shootings in which he pointed a marker at some

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davidl on April 24th, 2007

Philadelphia is lost.  It has erupted into a civil war.   The policy has failed.  We must pull out now:

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A bloody, bullet-filled weekend left 11 people dead across the city, where drugs and disrespect have

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