Your World, and You Can Have It

1. Shark-fu illuminates the embarrassing and shameful behavior of the Cambridge police who arrested Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. for "breaking into" his own house and then raising a stink about their behavior. (They need more than sensitivity training; they need the "turnabout-other shoe" scenario, only for real, which they are unlikely to get, since, like the ticking time bomb, that's a contrivance of screenwriters.)

   Now, here’s what always happens when a charge of racial profiling-based ig’nance is made – folks will talk about giving the officers involved the benefit of the doubt even though they didn’t give Professor Gates an inch even after he produced two forms of identification in his own damn house proving that they were all standing in his motherfucking house…other folks will blame Professor Gates for getting testy while being accused of breaking into his own damn house even though he was being hassled about whether or not he had the right to be in his own damn house which he proved was his house when he produced two forms of identification whilst standing in his own damn house…and still others will defend the officers involved no matter what evidence is revealed because they think Professor Gates was acting uppity and uppity negroes deserve the wrath of the law when they let themselves get uppity about being harassed in their own damn houses and since when do they let black folk have houses, don't they know that makes them uppity?!?

   Also, follow the links included.
2. Margaret and Helen look at that Limbo fellow with a high-power microscope. Because he's so big.

   Let me tell you about Walter Cronkite. Besides being sexier than Rush will ever be, Cronkite was someone you could respect even if you didn’t agree with him. He knew the difference between news and opinion and was quick to announce when he had switched from one to the other. Each evening for years he brought millions of Americans together to know and better understand the world around them. He was a man’s man who wasn’t offensive to women – unlike Rush who is an ass’s ass who couldn’t pay a woman to respect him… and I am sure he has tried.

   (Margaret chimes in. Don't miss that.)
3. Report from Noli Irritare Leones on the General Convention of the Episcopal Church, 2009. (Disclaimer: I am a former Episcopalian. Not on this account, however.)