In my email today: Darleen — I just renewed my oath of office to serve as your president for four more years. Thank you for making this possible. It’s an honor to be your president. Now it’s time to finish what we started — let’s get going. Barack P.S. — Organizing for Action is the next step in our grassroots movement and will be crucial to finishing what we started.

No, it didn’t help. I’ve got some sort of stomach bug. Forgive me, but you’re on your own for the Obama beatification ceremonies and celebrations. Consider this an open thread. Helpfully vomit free. Meantime, here’s my very old piece on “race” and racial constructivism — which I like to share on MLK Day — made all the more timely by the “post-racial,” “post-partisan” President and his very real applications of