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I’ve been thinking about what I’d like to say on Kurt Vonnegut’s death, but honestly, I haven’t so far come up with anything more worthy than what so many others have already said. This morning I see that Jim Booth, the man who introduced me to KV, has weighed in, and in typically penetrating fashion. So never mind me –

Snoop Says Rappers And Imus Are ‘Two Separate Things’;

I wondered how long this was going to take. A fairly lengthy piece (by network TV standards) on the NBC morning show examined the controversy and gave extensive play to the response from the Rutgers team, university and coach. Procter & Gamble is pulling their ads from the entire MSNBC daily line-up; Staples and Bigelow Tea are pulling advertising from

You’ll be hearing more on the greening of the Right from me in the coming weeks, I suspect. It’s a fascinating subject and could be important in the 2008 election. In the meantime, Bill Scher has a crisp analysis of last night’s Newt/Kerry enviro debate over at HuffPost.

Rutgers Team Angry but Will Meet Imus By REBECCA SANTANA (Associated Press Writer) From Associated Press April 10, 2007 12:49 PM EDT PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Rutgers women’s basketball coach on Tuesday called the comments radio host Don Imus made about her team “racist and sexist remarks that are deplorable, despicable and unconscionable.”

Well, Marty Kaplan just fucking drills it in his latest HuffPost missive. There’s been some talk about this campaign to encourage bloggers to play nice – which is not an inherently bad idea, once you get past the realities for why they play bad. But still, a theory we can all appreciate. But Kaplan is dead-on. The NY Times seems

In case you managed to miss it, long-time serial racist Don Imus struck again last week, calling the Rutgers women’s hoops team “nappy-headed hos” on his nationally syndicated show. Imus has a well established reputation for racial slander, and some of the people he invites on his show (like “sports announcer” Sid Rosenberg and producer Bernard McGuirk – who later

I’ve always been such a worshipper of Yeats, but it’s been so long since I sat down and read him, and I fear I have lost touch. This morning something entirely random caused me to pick up his collected works, and I found myself re-reading, for probably the first time since I was in college, “In Memory of Major Robert

I’m doing some research for a project I’m working on, and am hoping you might be able to provide a little insight for me.

The biggest challenge we face is one of momentum: America is not, and never has been, an intellectual culture. We do not, however much we might protest, live in a nation that treasures teaching and learning. On the list of things that we care about, education falls well to the south of things like entertainment and sports. Worse, in Instant

Some advice: Dick Dale says… Steve Albini analysis (which you may have seen) You’ve been warned.

Holy shizzle. I never ever thought this was even remotely possible, but for 2:16 I respected Geraldo Rivera. In case you missed it, an illegal immigrant recently got drunk, got behind the wheel and killed a white girl in Virginia Beach. O’Reilly, predictably, tried to make it all about our Dirty Mexican Problem. But then, Jerry crawled up in his