I
know you're sick of the George Allen story, but I couldn't help myself.
Slate.com has a little game called the George Allen Insult Generator.
You select from a group of a identifiers and ask him to insult you with
some incoherent word. I put in black and he called me an Ebonezer. No
harm. Almost sounds like a compliment. I put in woman and he called me
a twunt. Now I don't know if that is from Mars or Pluto, but I know an
insult when I hear one. Slate: The George Allen Insult Generator. By Christopher Beam, Torie Bosch, and Josh Levin
In Monthly Review, Ron Jacobs does a good review of black power activist, Rod Bush's, new book, We Are Not What We Seem: Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the American Century.
Jacobs seems to think that Bush's opinion is that the problem is about
Race & Class. Bush comes from that group-think of it's all race,
only race and always race, so I find this interpretation interesting. Monthly Review: Ron Jacobs, "It's Not Race or Class -- It's Race and Class: An Interview with Roderick Bush"
Every
American soldier's death in Iraq or Afghanistan is heartbreaking. This
one caught my eye because of its unique situation. This sister was a
second lieutenant and the first female graduate of West Point to die in
Iraq. Emily Perez was killed while patrolling southern Iraq near Najaf
on Sept. 12 when a roadside bomb exploded under her Humvee. She is
local, from Prince George's County and has a long history of family
members who have served our country. WAPO: West Point Mourns a Font Of Energy, Laid to Rest by War
