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Saturday, Dec 21, 2002

what he said

"But we shouldn't congratulate ourselves quite so fast. The Lott story didn't break this month — it broke four years ago. Where was the press then? Where were the Democrats? From December 1998 until the following spring, a black columnist at New York's Daily News, the politically nonpartisan Stanley Crouch, repeatedly laid out goods on Mr. Lott more damaging than the senator's latest transgression: his long and intimate association with the white-supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, an organization whose initials are not a phonic echo of K.K.K. for nothing. A few newspaper reporters and columnists recounted the same history, but Mr. Crouch, instead of winning a Pulitzer, was largely ignored by big guns in the media as well as by political leaders of both parties."

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Friday, Dec 20, 2002

spitfire

"Pot in Canada may soon be a click away with the launch of a home-delivery service for medical marijuana over the Internet."

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salted wounds

the pundits who said lott would not last out the week are feeling pretty good about themselves right now. i told him not to turn around but he didnt listen.

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