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  • More facts about Obie Trice

    Obie Trice is a Detroit child. He was raised and grew up in Detroit City: « I grew up on the Westside of Detroit. »

  • How They Could Steal the Election This Time

    Ronnie Dugger on the problems with e-Voting.

  • New books

    Some new books arrived this week, I am buying lots but not reading near as much as I should. Peter was complaining that I am still reading Rubicon – I am just spending too much time online folks. Charles Kupchan, The End of the American Era, Knopf 2003. Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly…

  • Bloggin hiatus

    Been a slow weekend, perhaps more blogging tomorrow.

  • "Cock And Squeeze" D12

    D12’s former « Cock and Squeeze » song from the D12 underground EP will give you a full opportunity to appreciate Bugz. Bugz starts the hostility in D12’s war of words. Welcome to the « weed house ». Watch Bugz start tripping while smoking his blunt and follow his clever wordplays aimed at weak rappers:

  • Arrests highlight al Qaeda's info flow

    CNN) — Recent arrests have exposed an intricate web of al Qaeda contacts in which the terror network’s operational information flowed among Pakistan, Britain and the United States:

  • Al-Qaeda group 'beheads US man': Benjamin Vanderford?

    Militants loyal to top al-Qaeda suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi have released a video which apparently shows a US citizen being beheaded in Iraq. The man in the video – which appeared on an Islamist website – says he is from San Francisco. Zarqawi’s militants have previously released footage of hostage beheadings. But doubts have been…

  • Eminem’s evolution as an artist since his pre-rapping time is impressing. Eminem’s musical evolution goes along with his personal evolution.

  • Detroit's Fat Killaz

    Ever heard about the Detroit Fat Killaz? If you haven’t, you have probably heard about underground rapper King Gordy who played « Big O » in Eminem’s « 8 Mile » movie.

  • Turning a blind eye to nukes: Will Saudi Arabia have nukes next?

    Jonathan Power asks if Saudia Arabia will be the next country to declare it has nuclear weapons, and the ability to deploy them at long range. They bought Chinese CSS-2 rockets back in the 80’s. With elections to be held in Saudi in November, the first since 1932, are we seeing attempts to liberalise the…

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