Ironically, she's actually a very petite woman.

Apparently, St. Louis ex-shock jock is an accidental racist. You know the kind, sort of a bigot for the Tourettes set. They can be walking down the street on a sunny afternoon and just suddenly start whipping a passing black man. They'll be accepting an Image award and, forgetting their speech entirely, shout out, "Thanks, niggers!"

They'll also piss off people who listen to too much radio and get fired.

Now, given, it was an unfortunate misspeak. I'm certainly no fan of Condi and I wouldn't call her a "coon", then repeating it, even accidentally...well, I might call her a uber-butch bull dyke who most likely rolls her own tampons, but that has nothing to do with her race, just her inexplicable love of football and bombing people.

But getting fired for it when it was an obvious mistake? I think that's a bit too far. PC speak and "cultural sensitivity" issues are getting way out of hand, anymore. Sure, he should be repremanded. Sure, he should have to apologize formally both to the listeners and Condi The Bull Dyke. Sure, he should probably do some sort of community service to improve his image with the community he insulted. But calling in to complain about it to the point where the station manager has to fire the guy eight days after he started his "dream job" seems over the top. There's equal rights and cultural sensetivity, and then there's just silliness.

Mind you, it's not as weird as the strange British in Oxfordshire, England, who want to rewrite the nursery rhyme "Bah, bah, black sheep" to "Bah, bah, rainbow sheep" because the word black is now offensive in any context. Period. Whatsoever. Any time.

Of course, I'm not sure how turning the sheep from black into a wool-providing pride parade is less offensive. Honestly, I'm not sure how it was offensive to begin with. But aside from being a horrible scan-buster, it just goes to show: it's okay to be black, because we can all make fun of the gays. Or, since the teachers at these nursery schools are worried that calling the sheep "black" could be alienating, calling them "rainbow" means everyone is offended equally.

Or something like that. Frankly, it's all just too confusing anymore.

Should we all seek a level of cultural sensitivity? Of course we should. Issues of race, ethnicity and bigotry still plague not only the United States, but the entire world, in some form or other. Incidents like these, though, do nothing to lessen those issues. Indeed, they only serve to increase the frustration, resentment and general mistrust that causes them in the first place while trivializing very real concerns.

He learned it at his momma's knee.

Nature vs. Nurture. It's a constant debate. Do kids go wrong because they had bad parents or are some people just born wrongheaded? Can a person's actions later in life be traced back solely to their parents?

Well, nurture just got a shot in the arm today.

Mammy Bush provides well for little Niel...because, as she said, everyone else actually improved their lot in Katrina.

While I approve of the Bush Oil Barrens wanting to "do something specifically for education", particularly since "No Child Left Behind" has been such an abysmal failure, to give money with the proviso that it specifically be used to buy software from BushChild Niel's company seems a bit...what's the word I'm looking for here...cronyish? I mean, not to call a Halliburton here, but c'mon.

Now, I'm sure everyone will counter with, "Maybe Ignite is the best educational software marketer out there and you're just being a crazy raving liberal who hates God, America and our troops by suggesting that Mammy Bush did wrong!" I have to admit, I don't know. Well, I don't know about the successfulness of Ignite's product.

What I do know is that Neil Bush, just like George W., has a long track record of spectacularly destroying businesses he comes into contact with. Not too mention the marriages. He also is completely used to having huge sums of money handed to him for no other real reason than his Daddy was President and now his brother is President. Let's not forget the great fun that was the Silverado Savings and Loan. $1 billion in taxpayer dollars gone and who had his hand in the pie?

So, no, I can't conclusively say that Ignite isn't the best educational software company on the market today and that Mammy Bush's desire to see her "generous" "donation" go directly into her son's pocket wasn't simply good business sense for the children and schools affected by Hurricane Katrina. It's completely possible that Neil has finally turned a corner, stopped having sex with asian women who just mysteriously show up at his hotel room door and throw their vaginas at him, ended his shady business dealings that cost both investors and taxpayers billions of dollars and become a model business man.

I mean, Roger Clinton got his...wait, bad example.

Billy Carter cleaned up his...er, no he didn't.

Well, there's always Donald Nixon who...was a complete and utter embaressment.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that there's a first time for everything.

This, probably, isn't it.

Vernon Robinson: An Uncle Tom for the new Millenium

Yah, it's really the gays who are a threat to this country...

Now, as he's obviously a "man of color"...frankly, it doesn't matter what color because he's certainly not white, or even "white enough"...so one must assume that those "traditional American values" he's so eager to embrace and even harken to in his ad would have him drinking at separate water fountains, attending separate schools and using separate facilities in general, right? Ideally, they would have him doing all this while he was busy picking cotton on Master's plantation. Although, I guess with his amazing ability to sell out and kiss as much white ass as possible, he'd be a house servant of some sort.

Not sure exactly what sort of politicians you people in North Carolina go for, but if this is it, feel free to secede.