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Cartoon for November 26
A letter writer to the New York Times recently described Attorney General/Torturer Aficionado Michael Mukasey as a man of unquestioned integrity. Editorials bemoaned Mukasey’s refusal to condemn waterboarding as torture as a bizarre departure from the behavior of an otherwise swell guy.
Funny, I thought we were judged by our actions, not some media-branded PR phrase.
(By the way, McCain does use the word “gook.”)
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Single Drop of Blood
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Briss Broyard’s new book received breathless, yet inexplicable, hype. Aside from the seriously odd choices that newspapers and magazines choose to push hard–while ignoring infinitely more important books–the weird obsession over race and implicit endorsement of the hoary “single drop of blood” rule seems worthy of comment.
