Glen Greenwood:

Thomas Sowell has performed a truly great service. He has managed to squeeze in every dishonest rhetorical tactic, flagrant myth, and hysterical premise of Bush followers into a single new column, in which he argues that we are too weak, cowardly, squeamish and soft to do the dirty, brutal work necessary to defeat the Islamic super-villains who are trying to take over our country (after nuking us) and impose Islamic sharia law on us, whereby we will all speak Arabic and live in submission to the Worldwide Islamic Caliphate with Osama bin Laden as our Supreme Ruler.

The column is like a comprehensive Cliffs Notes for the propaganda of Bush followers:

Mr. Greenwood fisks the article for its political assertions. Me, I couldn't get past the sheer terror you'd have to be feeling to write such a thing. I'm sorry, but nothing can "loom" when it's on the horizon.

I have come to understand that the race is not the problem, racism is the problem. And I have come to understand the word 'racism' is actually applied to different internal understandings by Black and white people. Observation of the nature of the problems racism causes your typical white person as opposed to your typical Black person makes that pretty obvious.

I acknowlege other minorities at this point but the fundamental divide, the one that all others but gender actually model, is the Black/white divide. I don't think anything I'm going to say is invalidated by adding others to the mix.

Watching the Clinton Lunch Kerfuffle/discussion...and the same issue is working through the techie blogs, by the way...it was again asked, well what can we do? I would like, without any further reference to Clinton, to offer an exchange while the bitter taste remains in several mouths. In exchange for understanding a single concept, I will offer you a single, very useful bit of advice.