I just got a newsletter from an alumni association of my high school, Flint Central High in Michigan. I don’t know how they got my address. As I read through it, I saw a logo, and recalled (three decades on) that our mascot was the “Indians.”

I idly wondered how long such a symbol of Amerikkkan racism and imperialism could stand.

I went to the web site, and was simultaneously amused and appalled to find that the Flint, Michigan school board had in fact voted to no longer allow this cultural hegemony and continuing genocide to continue. (Note that it’s not a permalink–it will probably be good for a few months, because they don’t seem to update much, but not forever…)

It gets better. My junior high, Whittier (now a “middle school”–what’s that all about?) was “The Braves.” My elementary school (named after a total dud of American history, President Franklin Pierce) was the “Pierce Arrows.” They idiotically struck down these symbols of racism as well (ignoring the fact that the Pierce Arrow was a car…).

There’s a happy end to the story, though. Being Flint, Michigan (which Michael Moore continues to pretend is his home town, even though he’s actually from Davison), they’re broke, and can’t afford to implement it (which would involve purchase of various new paraphernalia), so for now, we remain the Flint Central Indians. If I spoke Algonquin, I’d offer up a prayer of thanks.

Theodore Dalrymple writes that British suicide bombers are a product of moral relativism and multi-culturalism.

Theodore Dalrymple writes that British suicide bombers are a product of moral relativism and multi-culturalism.

Theodore Dalrymple writes that British suicide bombers are a product of moral relativism and multi-culturalism.

As time goes on, it’s looking more and more like claims of the loss of Iraq’s cultural heritage in looting were as overblown as the Jenin “massacre” over a year ago.

…While many museum officials watched in horror as mobs and perhaps organized gangs rampaged through the museum’s 18 galleries, seized objects on display, tore open steel cases, smashed statues and broke into storage vaults, officials now discount the first reports that the museum’s entire collection of 170,000 objects had been lost…

…Col. Matthew F. Bogdanos, a Marine reservist who is investigating the looting and is stationed at the museum, said museum officials had given him a list of 29 artifacts that were definitely missing. But since then, 4 items ? ivory objects from the eighth century B.C. ? had been traced.

“Twenty-five pieces is not the same as 170,000,” said Colonel Bogdanos, who in civilian life is an assistant Manhattan district attorney…

Is up. It’s a reprise of the New York Times surrender piece, with some commercial space commentary at the end.

Is up. It’s a reprise of the New York Times surrender piece, with some commercial space commentary at the end.

Is up. It’s a reprise of the New York Times surrender piece, with some commercial space commentary at the end.

He’s hiring Mark Geragos as an attorney.

See where hate speech like Santorum’s leads? A mob boss was whacked because he was gay.

Former DeCavalcante soldier Anthony Capo said the New Jersey-based family – often described as the real-life “Sopranos” – feared they would be the laughing stock of the New York underworld if their acting boss, John “Johnny Boy” D’Amato was outted.

“Nobody’s gonna respect us if we have a gay homosexual boss sitting down discussing La Cosa Nostra business,” Capo told jurors in Manhattan federal court.

Will this be the next battleground for gay rights?

Capo, the mobster-turned-government informant, said he felt like killing D’Amato when the boss’s girlfriend, known as Kelly, confessed to him about his secret life.

“She told me John D’Amato and her were going to sex clubs in the city, swapping partners and John was engaging in homosexual activity,” he said.

“It shocked me…he couldn’t be acting that way–he was a leader of men.”

Actually it sounds more like he was AC-DC to me…