September 11, 2005

"Ad Exec: Color Is Cool And White Is Washed Out"

Lessons in political correctness, racism and what to expect in the borderless "New America" promised by Bush, the Council on Foreign Relations [ click here and scroll down to see if CFR Independent Task Force on the Future of North America members names ring any bells ] and every CEO who is focused on profit above all else - even the future of their own children's nation - from what my friend Terry Anderson calls

Memories of Looting Past

Frome the June 1992 Heterodoxy [PDF]

LOOT SUITERS: "A fashionable beggar approached a downtown worker during Los Angeles' three days of rioting and asked for money to buy food.

"He was wearing a new suit with tags still on," Herb Sanders of suburban Van Nuys said in a letter published in the Los Angeles Times.[May 10, 1992]

When the going gets Tough, the ??? get ???ing.

Any reasonable observer must conclude that the difficulty the U.S. Authorities, at all levels, have had with dealing with Hurricane Katrina arose not simply because it was an exceptionally savage and huge storm, but, much more importantly, it was so sudden. This thing was not even declared a hurricane until just before it arrived in Florida - few in recent years can have picked up so much power in a short passage over the northern Gulf of Mexico.

Research Question

This appeared in The Corner, and I will refrain from comment, and just email the answer to Jonah, but I thought it it might interest Vdare.com's readers, too.

The Corner on National Review Online
PC BLEGS [Jonah Goldberg ]

Am I remembering this wrong, or during the hight of the PC craze (and the anti-PC craze) didn't some kid get an F on a paper for using the word "individual"? This would have been at least a decade ago. Ring a bell?