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Thursday July 12, 2007 · 2:39 AM PDT

2007/07/12 · 02:39

I sent this letter to Al Gore (via snail mail) and the Wichita Eagle (via email).

Dear Al,

I know you must get these emails every single day ... "Please run, Al" ... "You're what this country needs, Al" ... "Come take back what was stolen from you in 2000, Al" ... So I can imagine that this one won't get much attention. But I'm feeling the urge, the NEED, to write to you, which I've never done to a political figure before. Hell, not even a famous figure - when we wrote letters to our "heroes" in elementary school, instead of writing to actors or athletes or politicians like most of my good little classmates did, I wrote to my uncle, who had just gotten out of jail from a crack cocaine conviction. I admired his ability to stand up to his addiction, and overcome society's negative and pessimistic view of people with drug problems.

It's in much the same vein that I write to you tonight.

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Monday December 13, 2004 · 12:18 AM PST

2004/12/13 · 00:18

Somehow, a google news search for "Rumsfeld" led me, through about 3 degrees of separation, to an article claiming that Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and by extension South Park, are "as socially conservative as they come." And, surprisingly, the article kind of makes sense.

Except that in some cases the author is completely missing the parody aspect, and in others he is claiming that certain things are "social conservative" views when they are actually widely held. Read More

Prom Integrated For The First Time

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Wednesday December 01, 2004 · 3:16 PM PST

2004/12/01 · 15:16

This isn't breaking news, and it doesn't even give any particularly new insights into race relations in the South, but I just found out about it, and I thought it was very sobering.

In April of 2004, Eunice High School sponsored its very first integrated prom.

That's right - for the first time in Eunice, blacks and whites had their prom (gasp!) at the same time and in the same place. After hearing about this, I then found out that a high school in Georgia had just integrated their prom for the first time in 2003. Apparently it didn't go so well, because in 2004, some of the white students held their own, separate, prom again.

More on Eunice below the fold. Read More

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South Park is conservative?

Prom Integrated For The First Time