Pardon me while I get all serious on you for a second. I saw tonight's
Apprentice, and while I'm not going to give anything away, I'm not so pleased.
There was a segment where one of the team members were talking about these "old Jewish women" who gave them a bad review. And one of the team members -- who happened to be Jewish -- overheard and, rightfully so, took offense.
I've been lucky enough that I've lived in areas where people are usually pretty tolerant. I've never really had to deal with anti-Semitism, and I've been able to surround myself with people who may joke about it with me but who I know deep down don't mean it. Part of it is me having a thicker skin (thank you, New York & Boston upbringing) and part of it is just knowing these people well enough to realize that no, they're not really being evil bigots.
Makes me wonder though about how thin the veneer is. How much is bubbling under. How our country can go from segregation to integration in just 40 years without some serious explosions. Hell, I was reading something today about a New York Jew who moved to Waco, Texas for a job and got a weekly lecture from one of his co-workers about how the South should've won the Civil War, and how people used to tell him they'd never met a Jew before and then asked to see his horns. (That's only happened to me once... and ironically, I was in the South at the time.)
Anyways, here's something else for your aural pleasure. This guy RX must've taken a few weeks to put this together... but it's really all clips of Bush doing the words. And it goes all the way through the song. Right-click and save as. Then listen. Then listen again.
RX - "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (U2 vs. George W. Bush)