ChipSlap

Roberts

That reminds me of the story of Nat King Cole when he had just moved into Beverly Hills. A white, racist, neighbor approached him and said that they didn't want any undesirables in the neighborhood. Nat said: "Well if I see any, I'll let you know."

+1 Racist thought is not something one can simply turn off unilaterally. It is a socially constructed system of thought to which very few of us (depending on where and how we grew up) are totally immune. Years ago I (white/hispanic) impregnated a black woman and am raising our son without her. Yet I would not be so hubristic to say that I'm free of racist thinking. If you don't think you're racist, I recommend that you try the following link: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/ Some researchers at Harvard have come up with a web-based test to determine if the test taker has any implicit associations (such as between "black" and "bad"). Taking the test is an interesting experience, and can tell you a little about your own unconscious mind. Unconscious preferences like this is the form racism takes in the 21st century. Since racism now rarely manifests itself as a bunch of Klan members shouting the N word at a random brother, some (almost always white) people who aren't so perceptive may think that it is gone. One final point: I think it is ignorant to be proud of one's race. It is ignorant to be ashamed of it as well. I didn't choose my races, I didn't make them, it is no reflection on my talents or abilities and should be outside the arena of pride or shame. If I make, do, or conceive something, then I have a reason to feel pride or shame in it. Being proud because something happened to me? Nonsensical.

Maybe I'm nitpicking, but that's not the job of the president. That's more like a wedding vow. The constitution directs the president to swear that he "...faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." "Leading the nation" appears nowhere in the constitution.

Tarts

Gumbo

Nevada (Nevada Appeal, a newspaper)

You mean Henry Kissinger? Now THERE'S a guy who didn't deserve it. Not to mention that bomb-thrower Begin. Of course Sakharov was a member of the team that gave Stalin the atomic bomb, and led the team that gave Khrushchev the hydrogen bomb. The peace prize has long been a vehicle for political statements, but it's not really Obama's fault he got it so early; he wasn't on the selection committee.

Osteopath

"I told you I was sick." -- Tombstone of B.P. Roberts (1929-1979).

Porcelain

hook

Truman

Peking

Platinum

Love it. I gots to get me one when next I buy a Breitling.

Sucker

Pokey

I guess it's for aspiring rapper/pilots.

Smokey (Robinson)

Indy

Trident

Eh, it's not important. We, in the US, do get the Olympics rather more than our share of the time. Best wishes to Brazil, they know how to party. I'm confident they will put on a great show.

Spectacle

Mercenary