Behold. A wordle.net depiction of the most common words found in the comment thread attached to the LA Times' obituary of Sen. Jesse Helms, Republican of North Carolina.

This is a post Ben Welsh made on July 4, 2008

It is filed with other posts about car and the news.

Topics include data visualization, jesse helms, la times, north carolina, obituary, word cloud and wordle.

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