Two very different bits of linkblogging:
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cofax7, Ann Somerville has an extremely good summary post:
"A themed summary of RaceFail ‘09 in large friendly letters for those who think race discussions are hard".
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telophase:
Cat cafe! Oh, if only we had something like that here... (For those who don't know, my husband is pretty seriously allergic to cats, and even after not having lived with a cat for, oh, ten years, I still miss having one or two around. I still imagine that a coat draped over a chair is a cat, frex, and get sad when I realize it's not.)