i think i’ll defy and/or ignore society’s expectations for the fourth of july: to go stand out in the stinky rain in a huge crowd of people just to watch fireworks.
fireworks are cool and everything. but you can watch them on tv.
not that we have a tv.
but still.
a post by john lehrer
Now, I’m not sure I agree with that recent Shelby Steele quote about how “white Americans have made more moral progress in the last forty years than any people in the history of the human conditions.” For starters, I’m pretty sure that Germans deserve that dubious honor. The moral arc from Nazi Germany to a liberal, eco-friendly social democracy with a female-physicist president seems a wee bit steeper than the transition from Dwight Eisenhower to George Bush.
the post is about obama and what he signifies; it’s pretty short and pretty good.
