Ms Kate, that was a really interesting article…

Made me think about a Black man I know who is married to a Japanese woman. They have two sons.

Sometimes I wonder about how race has figured in their relationship, let alone cultural differences. I wonder how their sons identify, and how they deal with questions they have and questions they get from others about their heritage (the boys are in their teens too, so they are in the thick of adolescence). But, it’s not my business, and they all seem to get along well, so…

Examples like that give me hope that there will actually be a “post-racial” future, where we can concentrate on other things, instead of obsessing over a concept as marginal, and in many ways nonsensical, as “race”…

Correction Eagle Publishing=Regnery Publishing/National Review

Bryant Smith is the key.

Eagle Publishing

1 Mass Ave, NW is a building near the Capitol used by a lot of lobbyists. It is also the home of Regnery Publishing — as in Anne Coulter, Rich Miniter, et al. My money is that Eagle Publishing is a front for Regnery
— MacK..

Practitioners in the ‘fiction based community’. Bush is right because we say so.

Wasn’t we say so the name of the evil corporation in ‘Monsters, Inc.’?

Yes: WE-SAY-SO… Hah hah.. Ooooohhhhh…

The republican party has nearly the entire main stream media running interference for them so I think they can handle the possibility of blowback and damage.

Well, after all look how well they emerged from the 9/11 ‘incident’ so unscathed and smelling fresh… Anyone remember the anthrax problem? Bear-Stearns? Plame?

They’re the only thing that let’s idiots like Tony Snow claim racism was finished in the 1960’s.

I mean, you think they look like bigots now - just imagine if they didn’t have a couple of tokens to trot out during the convention?…

“Or”?

You may recall Colin Powell being seriously touted for high office, only to allow himself to be used to sell the invasion of Iraq. As far as I can tell The Powers That Be in the Republican party see black leaders as expendable assets towards their own agendas - and Rice doesn’t have nearly the mana Powell had.

I had been under the impression that Eagle Publishing was one of Phyllis Schlafly’s outfits, but that’s Eagle Forum - here’s some backstory on the founder of Eagle Publishing, which as noted above, has acquired old-time right-wing propaganda mill Regnery in the last ten years.