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Columnist authors shockingly moronic piece, apologizes

I'm a couple of days late on this, as I was busy on assignment.

But just for the record, since I claim to "leave no stone unturned," here is the disastrous column and subsequent apology from Mark Whicker of the Orange County Register.

I've had some really bad column ideas over the past three decades, but usually have been saved from myself by diligent editors.

One...

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