Kitchen Sink Omelet

My two favorite blends side-by-side: which do I drink first?

 Prop 8 Respondents Brief (against Calif's Proposition 8) extract restated in outline form (because I think it's awesome). Hat-tip to Dante Atkins at DailyKOS . Note: Link will open a PDF file. This extract starts at the bottom of page 3: Proposition 8's unmistakable purpose and effect is to stigmatize gay men and lesbians— and them alone— enshrine in California’s Constitution that gay men/women are “unequal to everyone else” committed relationships are ineligible for the designation “marriage,”  unworthy of that “most important relation in life.”  The obligation to identify and rectify discrimination in all its forms  society or the courts cannot be absolved by tradition fear of change an “interest in democratic self-governance” If a history of discrimination were sufficient to justify its perpetual existence, as Proponents argue,  public schools, drinking fountains, and swimming pools  would still be segregated by race,...

 I tried to link back to the FB post, but FB wouldn't me. So here is the very apt quote. Here the link to the FB account that put posted this. Kudos to them for this wonderful image. https://www.facebook.com/WomenWhoRunWithTheMoon

I keep seeing this graphic (the black block with white letters) on Facebook, and it's a totally bogus argument that (as usual) misses the whole point.

Part of the reason I don't like to do formal "brainstorming" on paper; it's already worked out in my head.

http://www.theroot.com/views/ black-latin-america-other- african-americans-0# It wasn't until my sophomore year at Yale, as a student auditing Robert Farris Thompson's art-history class, the Trans-Atlantic Tradition: From Africa to the Black Americas, that I began to understand how "black" the New World really was. Professor Thompson used a methodology that he called the "tri-continental approach" -- complete with three slide projectors -- to trace visual leitmotifs that recurred among African, African-American and Afro-descended artistic traditions and artifacts in the Caribbean and Latin America, to show, à la Melville Herskovits, the retention of what he called "Africanisms" in the New World. So in a very real sense, I would have to say that my fascination with Afro-descendants in this hemisphere, south of the United States, began in 1969, in Professor Thompson's very popular -- and extremely entertaining and rich -- art-history lecture ...