Sincerely,

L.A.P.D.

I suggest a cage fight, ultimate fighting rules. Proceeds from ticket sales would go to a New Orleeens homeless group.

TCOAN and the Couch Burnin’ Girl can be the ring girls.

Coop @ 171: Sir, you are not everyone. I know you have a hard time with that, but it’s true. I am impressed though that you were able to read Marcillac’s post and discern that he didn’t go to Cal on financial aid and is in fact a limousine liberal. Nice job introducing your favorite political insult.

While I’m patting you on the back, this was priceless as well: I am not going to play the, “white Southerners [...] card, and then you do it anyway. My only constructive criticism: if you had worked in the “Delta leaves by sundown” crack again, it would have been a perfect post.

Since were talking politics, just to be perfectly clear, I’ll vote for the Republican provided its not Huck whose inclinations to socialism, appeasement and impressive sleaziness one would be hard pressed to surpass. It’s all about supply side, a realistic foreign policy (read significantly more assertive than W’s in the last year except for in Iraq and, abviously much more effective), and constitutionalist originalist judges. The Hillary/Obama conflict is entertaining though and its worth noting that had any Republican intimated one quarter of what the Clinton campaign has he or she would have enthusiastically crucified by EVERY civil rights group and across 80% of editoiral pages across this country.

Yes, I do know some “of these people”, one of whom I work with quite closely. The other one is universally and justly regarded as one of the most impressive young infectious disease specialist sin New York. Grew up in the Harlem projects, single mom, didn’t know her dad, the works. 1450 on her SATs (early 90s – have no idea what the scores mean these days). No need for affirmative action here, got there entirely on the merits.

Might add that many beneficiaries of affirmative action are black kids who grow up in perfectly comfortable upper middle class circumstances (parents are professionals driving BWMs and such) and in some instances slack of because they know they don’t need to push themselves to get access to the best opportunities.

Furthermore, why do these people even care that much about what the black people in New Orleans are doing now? These people never made an attempt to help them during the devastation, but now have many comments on how those same people choose to deal with that situation, right or wrong. When you’re happy and content with your own life, you don’t have negative things to say about others. Overtly racist comments are often a sign of insecurity and illustrate a person’s need to feel superior based on arbitrary fact because they don’t seeing anything real within themselves that gives them value.

Maybe a little bit of a stretch and over-analysis, but to many degrees, it’s true.