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...more than an insignificant player in this year's race for the White House. A sophisticated discussion of Buchanan's policies might have given him, and the independents in the audience, something to think about. Yesterday, by confirming the country's worst suspicions about Harvard's self-righteous arrogance, we only alienated those independents and fueled Buchanan's devotion to his frightening cause...
...fine to argue that Bishop Spong shouldn't give a lecture. It's even fine to simply take issue with Spong's opinions themselves. Just don't do one wearing the self-righteous mask of doing the other...
...Seven Deadly Sins, I would guess that anger is crowding the age's more obvious greed and lust for cultural primacy. But why? The reasons for greed and lust are self-evident: They come with their rewards. Anger is a dramatic and astringent passion. But what's the payoff? Righteous anger may be ennobling, sometimes, but mostly rage merely disfigures the one who is angry. Anger delights in destruction; it arrives as a blind spasm, even as an orgasmic release, like sex firing off in an evil dimension...
...work (most notably 1994's The Mystery of Love), Sundiata works a day job teaching literature at the New School for Social Research. Among his first students was indie rock queen Ani DiFranco, who later remarked that he taught her everything she knows about poetry. Released on DiFranco's Righteous Babe record label, longstoryshort is a lesson both in what it means to be black in America and in the possibilities available within the spoken word medium...
...singer Kelis' single Caught Out There is so ear-catching that one immediately wonders if there's anything else on the album as good. Caught Out There captures the righteous rage of a woman wronged, and the chorus even includes a scream of anguish: "I hate you so much right now! AHHHHHH!" Alas, as suspected, the rest of the album is mostly standard-issue hip-hop-tinged R. and B. Only a few tracks, such as the bouncy No Turning Back, live up to the spunk of Caught Out There. AHHHHHH...