>>> Yes, the Sunday Inky blew half its front page load on George Anastasia’s “The Takedown Of Ace Capone”, and yes, while we love us some George, did this register with anybody else as hackish to the point of sounding made up and possibly even, dare we say, mutedly racist in the same way that all white-world gangsta coverage is? Just sayin’. Maybe what really got to us was the A Current Affair sensationalism of it all. Drop the Maury and get us an edit. [Inky]
>>> Speaking of sensationalism, who are you gonna believe? Local TV news hacks who estimate turnout at Saturday’s Ron Paul rally at 1,500 to 4,000 (we could see how you could mistake one for the other, drunky) or our own Cheesesteak The Impaler, who puts attendance around 500 and answered in one sentence the question we were trying to get answered on Friday: “I don’t see how you can really buy into anything he’s selling, unless you accept the dogma that pretty much everything since the ratification of the Constitution that has happened in U.S. history and resulted in federal action since has been intrinsically misguided.” We never thought we’d say this, BUT: Thanks, Cheesesteak The Impaler! [Bostodelphia]
>>> And finally, here is your dead Norman Mailer nod. While we don’t like to speak ill of the dead, we think Ol’ Norm would appreciate it: Good riddance to this choad and the myth of the macho American writer that dies with him. We’re all in the same gang now, fellas, whether you like it our not. On the other hand, I think we’ve all wanted to beat the piss out of Rip Torn at one time or another. [YouTube]

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