If anybody needs me, I’ll be watching Costa-Gavras’ Z (1969). I’ll also be enjoying a tuna salad-sandwich and a bowl of New England clam chowder. And perhaps a handful of devil’s food cake cookies. It’s not much, granted. But it’s all I have….

“We won civil rights long ago. Now success is up to individuals.” So argues John McWhorter, writing in the City Journal: The civil rights era ended a long time ago, victorious. Blacks once needed a Black Leader like King to galvanize the conscience of the government and the nation, but what

Interesting bit on the transgendered and their quest for civil rights, from Jonathan Last at the Weekly Standard: It is impossible not to acknowledge the difficulty of the transgender life. The sheer lengths to which some of them go in order to change their bodies are staggering and — in the truest sense of the word — pitiable. Transsexuals who are born male often go through an agonizing process to