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Good Thursday Evening, Fellow Seekers.

Here's just another reminder of why we're going to miss

"Daily Show"

host

Jon Stewart

so much when he's gone.

On Wednesday's program, Stewart called out conservative commentators who have excused the flagrant racsism by some University of Okalhoma frat-boys as either a product of pop culture or a bit of "Boys will be Boys" behavior.

As Vox.com reports, Stewart took particular aim at The Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol, who, during an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," blamed the rap music for the thoroughly repellent chant.

"Popular culture becomes a cesspool," said Kristol, who we're almost certain has never listened to rap, but has had people tell him about it. "A lot of corporations profit over it, off it, and then people are surprised that some drunk 19-year-old kids repeat what they've been hearing."

That prompted this riposte from Stewart, again, via Vox.com:

"First of all, the kids on that bus weren't repeating a rap song that they had heard. They were gleefully performing one of their fraternity's old, let's call them, anti-negro spirituals, featuring a word that predates rap and probably folk and thought. Black rappers did not introduce that word into the vernacular.

"And, second of all, how come when conservatives talk about African-Americans, they say, "These people need to take responsibility for themselves, pull up those pants, get a job," but when white people do something racist, they're all, "Well, you can't blame them. How could those poor children know wrong from right, after being driven to madness by the irresistible power of the hippity hoppity?"

As Stewart points out, it's not the first time this has happened in the right-leaning media.

From San Diego Clippers owner Donald Sterling's appalling rants to this week's coverage of the Justice Department report on Ferguson, there's been an effort by some on the right to excuse or defend this pattern of behavior:

"Each time one of these come to light, certain people in the media present it not as being indicative of a deep problematic racial divide in our nation that exists till today," Stewart said, "but as an unending series of isolated events," he added, " ... Rather than face the lingering reality of prejudice in this country, each incident, even the Department of Justice's Ferguson report, as comprehensive a catalog of race-based predation as anyone's going to find, it's an invitation to bend over backward to negate the role of race."

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Nationally Speaking.

Some Secret Service agents are being investigated after hitting a White House barricade, The Washington Post reports.

The National Journal on why the GOP holds an early edge in 2016 (Ummm .. because the only likely Democratic candidate is something of a train wreck right now?).

Politico on why the White House is fretting "the return of the Clinton Way."

Here at Home.

State Sen. Tony Williams got the most signatures of all Philly's Democratic mayoral candidates, PoliticsPA reports.

And here's PhillyMag on why this year's general election for Philly mayor might actually be worth watching.

PA has the second-most underfunded pension plan in this great land of ours, PennLive's Christian Alexandersen reports.

Something Fun.

The people who live on the Internets fairly exploded over this one today. We can't blame them:

'Star Wars: Episode VIII' coming in May 2017 http://t.co/UhgscPr49I — USA TODAY (@USATODAY) March 12, 2015

That's it for tonight. Now go to bed.