Uh-oh

It hasn't gotten a lot of play but Rick Santorum, the theocrat, religious zealot, and would be leader of angry white men everywhere, has a problem with black people. During the Iowa caucuses, he felt compelled to remind his white audience that their tax dollars were supporting black folks on the public dole. Here he all but calls President Obama a nigger.

The Party is Over

This blowhard's ill-fated campaign for the Republican presidential nomination is in such dire straits that he has dismissed half the paid staff and taken to selling photographs of himself for $50 a pop.

A Reminder

The shooting death of Trayvon Martin is a reminder that in this post-racial period, supposedly ushered in by the triumphal election of Barack Obama in 2008, that to be an African American male remains a status fraught with danger, irrespective of the steps one takes to avoid such danger.