American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

Death of a Master: Prof. Charles Chu (1918-2008)

I have periodically considered starting a web site which I would call GreatAmericanDead and devote to one post a day on some of the absolutely remarkable people who often become anonymous in the years leading up to their deaths when, instead, they should be followed, studied, respected. At least the occasion of their death, especially [...]

Yes we did

I like this guy more and more.

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Interesting little tidbit from the NY Times (and actually I thought it amusing back when the West Wing was on that they had a minority candidate win the presidential election. I didn’t think we were a progressive enough nation for that… now I am hoping we are).
Also, what are your thoughts on how the recent [...]

I’m not running this race

Clearly we can’t discuss race here. I’m not getting in the middle of it. Posts down. Crap.

For those who are woefully innocent
or willfully ignorant on race in America.

Accusations that voting for Obama because he’s black is ‘racist,’ while being semantically accurate, is far from the meaning of racism.
Or it needs a qualifier like ‘people voting for Obama because he’s black do so because they don’t like white people.’ Surely that’s true for at least part of the population but mostly it’s [...]

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