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Friday, July 4, 2008 12:00 AM

Jesse Helms dies on July 4th

Former Republican N.C. Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86.

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  • Friday, July 4, 2008 11:05 AM

    The World Is Surely A Better Place

    ...as we can tell by the (sometimes hypocritical) posts left here by the kinder, gentler (and generally superior in all ways) left.

    Jesse Helms is gone. The thing should speak for itself. Oddly, the invective so far is less than showed up at the sudden, untimely passing of Tim Russert, who apparently was an atheist, leftist version of the Antichrist.

    No, the world is a more fucked-up place and every time someone dies the proof becomes more clear, at least here at Salon.

    Me, I was raised on that silly-ass "If you can't say something nice..."etc., and of course, also on John Donne's tolling bell.

    Civility: the right has trampled on it; the left has proven it can do a better job of trampling, just as with everything else.

    Stooping to conquer: a really attractive way to go.

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