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Growl by Gerard Allen Van der Ginsberg For Karl Rove Solomon I SAW the second-best minds of my not-so-Great Generation destroyed by Bush Derangement Syndrome, pasty, paunchy, tenured, unelectable, and not looking too sharp naked, bullshitting themselves through the African-American streets at cocktail hour looking for a Prozac refill, aging hair-plugged hipsters burning for their ancient political connection to the White House through the machinations of moonbats, who warred on poverty and Halliburton's Wal-Mart and bulbous-eyed and still high from some bad acid in 1968 set up no-smoking zones on tobacco farms in the unnatural darkness of Darwinistic delusions floating...

A key Supreme Court justice said Wednesday that Texas Republicans appeared to hurt minority voters when they redrew congressional boundaries that helped the GOP entrench its power in Congress. But despite Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's misgivings, it did not appear there was broad support on the high court to throw out the entire map promoted by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas to help Republicans win six more seats. Justices also did not seem ready to bar states from drawing their boundaries more than once a decade. The court took up four appeals that raised complicated questions about...