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7/31/08
Tales of two SoCal bookstores.
7/30/08
SALON's Andrew O'Hehir interviews filmmaker Courtney Hunt (FROZEN RIVER).
7/30/08
LOS ANGELES TIMES on San Francisco poet August Kleinzahler.
7/29/08
Jon Voight's conservative talking points.
7/28/08
Teaser trailer for Oliver Stone's W.
7/28/08
On Shia LaBeouf's current troubles.
7/25/08
BEYOND BAROQUE chapbook archive: remembering the living, the dead, etc. etc.
7/24/08
Young Turks' Cenk Uygur on Bush's comments on economy to the have-mores.
7/23/08
Random notes: Katie Couric, BEYOND BAROQUE and the end of book review sections in newspapers.
7/21/08
RIP: AT THE MOVIES WITH EBERT AND ROEPER
7/18/08
MILLHOUSE: A relevant film in the wake of the Obama controversy.
7/16/08
FOX NEWS' Chris Wallace: Comedian.
7/15/08
SALON's Gary Kamiya on Barry Blitt's satirical NEW YORKER Obama cartoon.
7/13/08
FOX NEWS and their tribute-of-sorts to Tony Snow.
7/13/08
Brendan Fraser: subject of one of the all-time great celebrity puff articles.
7/11/08
Phil Gramm's "whining" remark.
7/10/08
Elaine May: Another example of older women in Hollywood who need to avoid plastic surgery.
7/9/08
A DGA member stands naked in contempt: re the SAG/AMPTP negotiations.
7/8/08
More random notes a la Larry King.
7/6/08
Saying goodbye to Jesse Helms, uber-racist.
7/3/08
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Sunday, July 6, 2008
3:41:00 AM EDT
Feeling Disgusted

Saying goodbye to Jesse Helms, uber-racist.


Not so long ago, I read a Michael Kinsley definition of the word "gaffe"; it boiled down to someone saying something that everyone knew to be true but was a statement that people didn't dare utter in public.

I read an obit of North Carolina's former Senator Jesse Helms that tried to tiptoe around his antipathy towards African-Americans; as an antidote, here's a link to a blog in THE NEW REPUBLIC's online edition that some may take as a "gaffe" in the Kinsley tradition, but displays just what kind of person Helms was:

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/07/04/jesse-helms-is-dead.aspx



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