Where's an Opinion When You Need One?

Every day, The State finds new and creative ways to disappoint me. Their endless supply of flubs and follies strains the imagination—it's as if Bill Gates had his entire wealth converted in to pennies!

Here's an opinion piece that fails to deliver an opinion. Instead the author Leon Pitts just shakes his head at the miseries he brings up and restates the question. (Why are so many rappers involved in shootings?)

Um, anyone could have asked that question or deplored death and mayhem. It would take someone with a special insight—perhaps, say, a newspaper columnist or something—in order to propose either a theory as to why things happen this way or what can be done about it.

So does Leon Pitts dare to answer his own (obvious, trivial) question?

Of course not.

But at least it gives the "newspaper" an excuse to put up this provocative, unedifying picture of 50 Cent with a handgun and a diamond studded cross.

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