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Wayback ... Here's something of a treasure I happened upon by touching off a hot link on an old post.  It's a Wayback Machine for the Wall Street Journal  on  Friday, October 31, 2003.  Cool.  But what surprised me was that all the links are also confined to that date, so for instance  an article, "Will Success Spoil the Cubs?"  and this Best of the Web tid-bit are saved. If He Were a Republican, This Would Be Hate Speech--XIV It turns out the Associated Press account of an Iowa brawl between staffers for Dick Gephardt and Howard Dean, which we noted yesterday, was rather sanitized. Deanie Hunter Allen alleged that the two unnamed Gephardtians "used a derogatory slur," as the AP's Dept. of Redundancy Dept. put it. The Sioux City Journal adds some crucial detail: "The Dean staff member, 24-year-old Hunter Allen, who is openly gay, said he was called a 'faggot' by a Gephardt staff member after being shoved and escorted out of the event." I had forgotten about this valuable resource.  The bastids can't hide what they said in the past at all,  can they?  Wait.  That includes this bastid.  Those bastids!. Horry Clap - check this. The old format and everything.