The Blackness Test

I have to reach back into the recesses of my mind to recall a time when Saturday Night Live was funny. And yet. I must admit that this skit from what I think is a recent episode had me cracking up. (Apologies, I have not mastered the art of posting videos to blogs. So…just head [...]

Not Quite a Tsunami

My Democratic friends have long been celebrating as a foregone conclusion that the midterms would constitute some sort of meteorological metaphor – a tsunami, a tidal wave, a hurricane. Whatever. The point being that the early polling showed President Bush at record lows, his party wracked by scandal (both financial and sexual, to boot), [...]