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They have polar bears at the Albuquerque Zoo. I was like, "Damn, you dudes are in the wrong place."

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Aww. That makes me kind of sad. I am going to go to Germany now and see that bear every day so he will never cry again.

Polar bears cry?

People (including me) should eat less food, dammit.

It's New Mexico - not a really rule-oriented state. I think you could probably get away with gum.

Looks nice on the Internet. It seems to be a concert hall, so the sound should be good. I think my sister is going.

I've seen Jesse Jackson speak twice, and was blown away both times. Gotta give him props for going to foreign countries and getting hostages released.

I used to like to listen to that tape while washing airplanes.

I got kinda pissed off at Santo last year while listening to a Mets-Cubs series on XM. (They only give you the home team feeds.) I don't really have any bad feelings toward the Cubs, but his boosterism rubbed me the wrong way and when the Mets came back late to win, I was like, "Take that, Santo!"

"Tron."

Well, first, it's not entirely true. There are plenty of instances where white people have to think about race. What I was aiming for was something more like being white is rarely a disadvantage in our society. I wish we could be color-blind in this society, but we can't. When emancipation happened, many, many blacks were in the lowest rung of society. Going on 150 years later, a lot of black people have moved up the ladder. A lot haven't. Is there something systematic about that failure that's society's fault, is it solely due to individual failure, or is it a mix of both? I don't know. My pe

Race is an issue that white people, frankly, can afford to not pay attention to, and that's quite a luxury. For blacks, Latinos, Native Americans, etc., it's more important and has more of a bearing on their lives.

Aww, crap - that rots. Best wishes and the most effective of vibes.

I don't know if it's so much "missing" on the part of some people. I think it is a conscious decision some people make to think of racism as something in the past that is rude to bring up in this day and age.

Not entirely, or, I should say, it is an opinion based on guidelines and beliefs also held by my publisher, colleagues and readers. (They get the final say, by either reading or not reading the paper.)

Just because a measure is subjective does not make it invalid. If I did not as an editor every day discriminate between stories which were "good" and stories which were "bad," I would be fired pretty soon, and rightly so.

At my newspaper, we don't even have a TV.

Good point. Hillary made a speech about the mortgage thing yesterday. If she had said subprime mortgages were a CIA plot, maybe she would have gotten some attention.

I get the audio, which comes in handy sometimes and does not cost a ton of $.

Duh.

A guy who wrote for my old paper was an extra in Kundun. We didn't believe him either, until.