Sunday, April 05, 2009

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Jazz legend talks politics (News 24 South Africa)

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:31:59 -0700
Jazz icon Hugh Masekela is still mixing politics and music, warning that South Africa could lose the musical magic conjured up during the creative explosion under apartheid.

Today's Daily Schadenfreude: Jeff Kottkamp

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:49:00 -0700
For the second time in six weeks, it seems appropriate to aim our not-necessarily-daily laughing-and-pointing at Florida lieutenant governor Jeff Kottkamp. A Republican (of course), Kottkamp has been under scrutiny for some time because of certain irregularities in the travel he has done on the state's dime. And today, even more details are coming out about Kottkamp's "state business" -- and let's just say he might be taking a wee bit of advantage of Floridians and their tax dollars: Lt

Johnathan Wilber: Gay Iowans: We Never Were Ironic

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:58:55 -0700
It's certainly a funny day to be a gay Iowan. When you leave the Midwest, you'd better be prepared to renounce your allegiance to your home state, especially when you become a New Yorker, as I did about four years ago. City folk like to imagine Iowans all live on farms; that we subsist on pork, corn, and soybeans; that our "cities" deserve quotation marks; that we have no bookstores, vegetarians, or food coops to speak of. The first question a New Yorker may ask an Iowan transplant: Are you