I know
what you've been saying.
"Rodge, I come to this site to read your
long and interesting dissertations on what the filthy f***ing democrats
are up to. Longer the better. Of late all I'm seein' are
frivolous photo chopping, general interest stories, and stupid jokes
and I'm damned sick of it. I was going to nominate you for the
best political blog of the year, but unless you stop with the
inconsequential drivel and do some real expounding, count me out. -
(One of 236 nearly identical e-mails received just today!)
Sigh, I know, my kids are
telling me the same thing. But first—
A
man walks into the psychiatrist’s office with a zucchini up his nose, a
cucumber in his left ear, and a breadstick in his right ear. He says,
“What is wrong with me?
The psychiatrist replies, “You are not eating properly.”
Electoral
racism in its most egregious form is the unwillingness of whites to
vote for blacks regardless of qualifications or ideology. So far,
Barack Obama has been involved in two elections that suggest such
racism is no longer operative. His reelection bid, however, may
indicate that a more insidious form of racism has replaced it.
The 2004
Illinois Senate race between Obama and Alan Keyes, two African
Americans, was a unique test of old-fashioned electoral racism. For a
truly committed racist, neither would have been acceptable ....[Really
good, it's what I was about to write myself, word for word]