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...Grammy for Album of the Year. The cutting edge of Southern music: a danceable, rapid-fire, bass-heavy rap (frequently blended with R&B) called crunk, fine-tuned and marketed by loud, gold-toothed former DJ Lil Jon and popularized partly through his massive and spectacularly vulgar hit Get Low. His music--along with the crunk (Southern shorthand for "cranked up," as in increased volume; it also alludes to getting crazy drunk) label--has made its way through every city block to the hip-hop mainstream...
...make of Lincoln as a man. Beneath the spectacular symbols of mourning--houses draped in black, endless ceremonies as his body was taken by train from Washington to his home of Springfield--was an intense ambiguity: stories circulated regularly about him as a religious doubter, a teller of vulgar stories, an uncouth and awkward man, a usurper of power. But Republicans saw him as a great asset and tried to build a myth that would last--and do the party lasting good. In May 1865, the Republican editor Josiah Holland interviewed the President's law partner William Herndon at length...
...Motherhood Dooce www.dooce.com Hilarious personal blog by one Heather B. Armstrong of Salt Lake City, Utah, a whip-smart, sassy (and sometimes vulgar) stay-at-home mom. Even the exploding poop stories are good. Also: DotMoms links to dozens of blogs written by parents about parenting. Not all of them are "momoirs;" some of the bloggers are dads...
...when Gaston, the American League manager, warmed up beloved Oriole Mike Mussina in the bullpen but then neglected to use him in the game. The next day, Baltimore fans were seen wearing tee-shirts that said “Cito Sucks,” clearly a precursor to more vulgar varieties of apparel that can be purchased outside Fenway Park these days...
...some historians have begun to criticize the museum, saying there's too much razzle-dazzle and not enough scholarship. "The rubber Lincolns make him remote, strange and mythological," says Simon, of Southern Illinois University. "They've made him into a vulgar creature, not unlike Ronald McDonald welcoming you to his hamburger place." Counters Harold Holzer, a Lincoln scholar and co-chairman of the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission: "In an era where we battle iPods and MTV for attention, anything that encourages future exploration is good." --By Kristin Kloberdanz