Two More Things

• Black women pilots, not stopping with Bessie Coleman.  Via The Root.
  

  Among other members are Sheila Chamberlain who was the United States Army’s first African-American female intelligence combat pilot, serving active duty during Grenada/Panama Invasion and Persian Gulf War. Major General (Ret.) Dr. Irene Trowell-Harris was the first African-American woman in the National Guard’s history to become a general officer, and the first woman to have a Tuskegee Airman Chapter and a mentoring Award named in her honor. And Shirley Tyus is the first officer to fly the Boeing 777 for United Airlines on routes from United States to France. She is also, United Airlines’ first African-American female pilot.
  
  As a Military Intelligence pilot, president Beverly Armstrong took a stint in Korea for a military intelligence mission on the Nor. Korean border, where she was recruited by the Air Force International Guard and became the first African-American woman they ever sent to flight training. “I don’t think that we have put a spotlight on the fact that Bessie Coleman made her contribution actually two years before Amelia Earhardt [American History’s note of first female pilot],” says Armstrong. “Bessie Coleman made her contribution almost 100 years ago and we have less than one woman a year to show for it!”

• Skippy on the (political) tea baggers:
  

  most telling of all is [Canadian conservative] mr. kay's realization that, as we in blogtopia (ywctp) have posited elsewhere, the multi-millionaire media managed to ignore the bulk of crazy in nashville, and concentrated on star power, cleaning up the entire proceedings for mass consumption:
  

  perhaps the most distressing part of all is that few media observers bothered to catalog these bizarre, conspiracist outbursts, and instead fixated on sarah palin's saturday night keynote address. it is as if, in the current overheated political atmosphere, we all simply have come to expect that radicalized conservatives will behave like unhinged paranoiacs when they collect in the same room.

  well, the left has. we're not sure about the pundit class.
  
  or capt. america, either.