Word: outlanders
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...think Don Imus should have been fired? -Hoziah Outland, Lebanon, Pa.The dialogue is more important than Imus. The fact that we are discussing race is inspiring. I didn't care what happened to him. What he said was hurtful: the difference between those words coming out of a rapper's mouth and his mouth is that when a rapper says them, they are not racial. If I walk up to a black man on the street and say "nigger" with a blank expression, nine times out of 10 he would hug me. That is a fact...
...same class of urban journalists. Outside of D.C., L.A. and NYC, the only time folks get to meet a correspondent from a major television network or a writer from a leading newspaper is when a storm has just destroyed their neighborhood. And when the big shots do vist the outland, they always dress wrong, covered in either condescending denim or some haughty blend of wool and silk. Then they call the tornado that struck the place a "cyclone," even though the place is Minnesota and Minnesotans don't use that word...
...still glad to see next to our cornflakes, even after 50 years. All of Schulz's would-be successors flamed out. Berke Breathed was brilliant in "Bloom County" for a while, then retreated from the strip after an accident and could never recapture the magic with his next try, "Outland." "Calvin and Hobbes," surely the postmodern offspring of Lucy and Charlie Brown, delighted (Schulz himself was a fan) until Bill Waterson ran out of ideas and mercifully shut the thing down. Gary Trudeau tried taking a long break from "Doonesbury," only to return to find that, despite the occasional hilarious...