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Corey Glover is 51 today. So in his honor I am declaring this the second ever Funk Metal Friday. Here’s Living Colour performing “Cult of Personality” at Auburn University in 1988.
Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York Magazine; a longtime contributor to the Washington Monthly; and a former policy adviser to three governors and a U.S. senator from his home state of Georgia.
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