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# THEIR AGENDA IS ANGER: Christopher Hitchins contends that it is not possible to placate the professional-style Islamist Rage Brigade, so there is no sense in anxiously engaging in self-censorship to avoid their wrath. [slate]

# This feature story by Josh Getlin about an often-overlooked mystery writer in LA comes recommended by J Kingston Pierce:

"John's goal, among other things, has been to write an alternative history of Los Angeles from the standpoint of groups and people who are excluded from the established discourse," said social historian Mike Davis, who wrote "City of Quartz" and "Planet of Slums." "This fits uneasily into people's stereotypes of modern Los Angeles, and it's what makes him so distinctive."

# And Pierce notes other pieces
worth reading here: [rap]

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