Don't we live in post-racial America? Not judging by the case of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who was arrested at his own house for his temerity to live in a predominantly white neighborhood. Some would say he had it coming, but from where I'm standing, from the moment arresting officer Sgt. James Crowley appeared at Mr. Gates' door, Gates had every ( Read more... )

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Please let me know if you're okay. There are still some of you I haven't heard from yet. You'd better be okay so I can be horribly furious at you for not picking up your phone(s).

[Update]It seems like everyone I know about is okay (thankfully). I'm listening to Tony Snow talk about it during the White House daily briefing right now. Given the ( Read more... )

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I love the Daily Show.

~Sean

1) Why are there so many people at the Post office at 2:30 on a Monday afternoon ( Read more... )

I was gonna save it for Easter, but I just can't wait.

So why are they mad exactly? Do they feel the Lord's Holy Package isn't to scale? Is it the fact that it's evocative of the typical treats brought by the Easter Bunner? Or maybe it's (as Dayla pointed out) just because he didn't use white chocolate...?

~Sean

House (narrowly) Passes $124 billion spending bill

I'm very ambivalent about this...

~Sean

I was coming home late last night after watching Heroes and Caddyshack with phil_bond and laviorli. As I was getting off the Whitney exit and noticed an oddly-stopped SUV nearly blocking the exit (it was pretty slick out, so slowing down enough to get around it was kinda tricky). Then I saw a college-aged-looking couple wandering the offramp ( Read more... )