http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/role_models Civil Rights historian Taylor Branch published an essay this weekend to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the King assassination. As usual with Branch (overrated, check out David Garrow instead) the piece was unwieldy and imprecise. He does a mashup using the Rip Van Winkle story, one of King's favorite parables about Lazarus, and a media critique of the "spin" age, failing to hone in on any point. He also typed up this weird sentence: Democratic balance has slept for 40 years, and we face a world like Rip Van Winkle run backward. We wake up blinking at Tiger Woods,... Copyright 2008 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:48:49 -0800 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:16:14 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Hone in on?

]]> ecce homo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/role_models#c991386 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/role_models#c991386 2008 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:56:08 -0800 Hone this mo'fucker!

]]> Sally http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/role_models#c991427 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/role_models#c991427 2008 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:16:14 -0800