For a long time, I have wanted a weekly newspaper that was more courteously laid out than the dailies and somewhat enriched in what had turned out to be important & what had turned out to be true.  For most of my life, the Sunday New York Times Section 4 more or less served that purpose, but as time wore on it contained less & less news and more & ( Read more... )

In the Washington Post Weekly, 28se-04oc, there is an earnest 1-page article on how important racism is in South Carolina politics.  The Post has chosen to illustrate it with a photograph taken in a restaurant in Orangeburg, SC, of a white waitress (more precisely, a pink waitress with blond hair) serving two black customers (more precisely, two ( Read more... )