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...order to reach Andrew?s East Coast readers at dawn, before they set out on their commutes, I posted the my first blog entry at 4 a.m. I?m rarely conscious at that hour, and I wasn?t conscious that Monday morning, either, even though I was writing at top speed about terrorism and other big topics. My fogginess didn?t bother me, however, because I?d been told to write simply and conversationally...
...three days of high-speed semi-conscious blogging could turn me into a serious TV pundit, perhaps I had a knack for this thing after all and perhaps the derisive e-mailers were wrong about me. Maybe abusing innocent bloggers was the Internet-era equivalent of torturing small animals-a way for people who were seething anyway to vent their wrath without fear of retribution. I pondered the matter for a few minutes and decided to address it on the website, with special attention to the who?d accused me of being a racist right-wing gun-nut merely because...
...Investors argue they're being unfairly scapegoated. Developers, they say, are simply frightened that outsiders like them are getting a piece of the action for once. They add that homebuilders, far from being the socially conscious lot they've cast themselves as in this dispute, are just as culpable with respect to skyrocketing housing prices. The developers, says Sean Claggett, a Las Vegas attorney who represents investors, are often the first these days to hyperactively raise home prices to levels that attract investors in the first place. "The investors are not the ones who dictate the market, so to just...
...Falls Down slammed the "single black female addicted to retail" but concluded with West admitting, "I wanna act ballerific, like it's all terrific/ I got a couple past due bills, I won't get specific/ I got a problem with spending before I get it/ We all self-conscious, I'm just the first to admit it." Throughout, West careered between the Protestant ethic and street fantasies, revealing himself to be wise and stupid, arrogant and insecure, often in the same breath. But by baring his flaws and being self-critical--and daring listeners to do the same...
...English department at Chicago State University. "It's like Walt Whitman. 'Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.'" West's old boss, Damon Dash, puts it a little differently: "He combines the superficialness that the urban demographic needs with conscious rhymes for the kids with backpacks. It's brilliant business...