"It’s not happenstance that Frank, Lewis and Cleaver — none of them major Democratic players in the health care push — received a major share of last weekend’s abuse. When you hear demonstrators chant the slogan “Take our country back!,” these are the people they want to take the country back from."

Ccan of story from EC's Weird Fantasy #18 (1953). The Comics Code Authority pressured EC to change the comic, which is a simple little tale about blue and orange robots

[over-reactions] 18-yo straight-A student is arrested for writing a disturbing essay in a creative writing class. Racist VT blowback: he's Chinese-American

Hofstadter -> amazing

Good riddance, Chief Illinwek!

This title been on a sticky on my dashboard forever. Can probably get from library by now.

"On 11/ 7/1862, a group of about 1,700 Dakota, primarily women, children and elderly, were force-marched in a four-mile long procession from the Lower Sioux Agency to a concentration camp at Fort Snelling" (thanks, csp)

"Funniest man I ever saw, saddest man I ever knew." – W. C. Fields

In 20s Canada gave Inuit sur-numbers, eg "Annie E7-121." New identifier came complete with a dog tag.

Good strategy: expel your token assimilated Muslim. [twist: Hirsi Ali is coming to the US for a job at the AEI]

"In 1874 the failure of Northern Radicals to launch a militant, armed riposte to the white insurrection in New Orleans helped to doom the first Reconstruction. Will our feeble response to Hurricane Katrina now lead to the rollback of the second?"

"If you read the history of Fred Hampton, you won't see anything that bad," Ald. Haithcock said. "All he said is he was going to defend himself against policemen, and evidently he didn't because they murdered him."

Part 1 of 17 in series on rotten cops in the CHA. Highly rec'd. "The impunity of 'a few bad apples' can create conditions of life on the ground ... that resemble those in the most repressive police states."

Susan Smith Syndrome: "They contended that the two devised a plan in which Mr. Mangelsdorf would kill Mr. Harmon and Mrs. Raisch would tell the police that he had been murdered by two black intruders."

"All hate groups have beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics." KKK tops in TN, skinheads: NJ, neo-confeds: SC. [& there's a Matthew Hale shitfest on MATINICUS? wtf?]

South'n Rightwingers love racial admixture tests! Blame one-drop rule on NAT TURNER. goal: end (NONwhite) 'race.' wack(y)!: "Backintyme portrays living history at the Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center."

Cicero is 75% Latino, but run by anglos. Who do you think is complaining about the 'loud music' at block parties?

watch out america - ecuadorians are coming to your neighborhood - TO PLAY VOLLEYBALL! Protect your children!