"the tent pole"

I was just scanning some blogs and found this entry from yesterday's No More Mr. Nice Guy

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So yesterday I was flipping through a copy of a newly published novel -- Slick by Daniel Price. It's about an ethically challenged publicist who devises a scheme to help a rapper named Jeremy (aka Hunta) who's about to be publicly accused of sexual assault. The ruse is: the publicist will produce another accuser who will go public first with charges that she was sexually assaulted by Hunta -- and then that accuser will be discredited.

Do you understand why I'm bringing this up here?.......

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I can't link directly to this post, but click the link and scroll down to yesterday's entry at 8:04am, about 1/4 down the page:

http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/

I finally figured out how to link directly to that post.

http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2004/09/so-yesterday-i-was-flipping-through.html

hearing about this TANG stuff, and I just want to scream. I'd much rather folks focussed on *'s last 4 years, not 30 years ago.