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Irregular commentary on whatever's on my mind -- politics, sports, current events, and life in general. After twenty years of writing business and community newsletters, fifteen years of fantasy baseball newsletters, and two years of email "columns", this is, I suppose, the inevitable result: the awful conceit that someone might actually care to read what I have to say. Posts may be added often, rarely, or never again. As always, my mood and motivation are unpredictable.

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Saturday, April 10, 2010

"I Took A History Class In College, But I Flunked"




Catering to his constituency, Bob McDonnell, the white Republican governor of Virginia, recently declared April to be "Confederate History Month" in his state. In his speech kicking off the month-long celebration (nuthin' says party like the Civil War!), Gov. McDonnell touched on plantations and Lee's Army and Bull Run and Jeff Davis, but somehow made not a single reference to slaves or slavery. Black leaders in Virginia were incensed. McDonnell acknowledged his oversight and vowed to make up for it by declaring May "Nigger-Joke History Month."
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