From Richard John Neuhaus on the First Things blog:

As I said, the Philadelphia speech was in many ways an admirably thoughtful and candid reflection on race in America. Yet the no doubt unintended message, reinforced by the senator’s pundit supporters, is that white people need to be more accepting of the strange ways of black folk…

By reviving historic stereotypes, Senator Obama’s speech and the uses to which it is being put has dealt a severe blow to race relations in America. It is giving a big boost to what someone has rightly called the soft bigotry of low expectations.

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From the Times Online

Somebody stop this man!

H/T Driving Out the Snakes

A man has ended his life with a homemade suicide robot.

Living in a vacuum sucks.
- Adrienne E. Gusoff

This was my favorite book as a kid:

Oh, these are just too good (the first two had me in tears, I was laughing so hard)!!!

“Is it snowing in here?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJFEb7d4OLQ

“Did you get your pantsuit at WalMart?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWuJbOB1kdw&NR=1

“I should know, because I’m black”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhEPNOusKv4&NR=1

“Whitewater”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUIHIE6lXOU&NR=1

“No Democrat has the guts to stand up and say 9/11…a lot.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k8sKiZohjI&NR=1 – this reminds me of a few other posts I did on my personal blog about Giuliani: Giuliani’s Answer to Everything and Why Giuliani Bothers Me

“John Edwards is a total loser.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj9bjRixkVc&NR=1

“Hillary Sucks ‘08” (Nannies of Swift Kids for Truth)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj9bjRixkVc&NR=1

“Ms. Clinton, I don’t want your recipe”

H/T: Mark Shea

This is great:

I love this: http://yeli.us/Flash/Fire.html