Rep Clyburn, Final Arbiter of All Things Racist

Jim Treacher at The Daily Caller has the details.  I will be using the hashtag #faatr when I tweet about this in the future.

h/t Instapundit

Comment Re: Jeff Goldstein

I was flipping through my new phone (Motorola Backflip) when I came across this Glenn Reynolds post.

Glenn quotes the beginning of the paragraph, but my attention was drawn to the last sentence.

But that isn’t the case: instead, Kiteley objects to the content, and sees Darleen’s cartoon as the online equivalent of shouting fire in a crowded movie theater.

I began to wonder about the use of the phrase "shouting fire in a crowded theater." I can see the logic of not causing a panic that leads to deaths, but today we have these rules called fire codes: dictating the number of exits, the number of people allowed to be present and mandating technology to provide illumination  for public venues.  One might argue that under these fire codes, the charge of falsely crying fire in a crowded theater is relegated to the the level of other incendiary rhetoric and no longer prohibited.

Sunday light reading

Victor Davis Hanson On Receiving another Request to Protest, Write a Letter, Give Money—Anything to Save the State Worker and His Program

Read the whole thing, especially the conclusion:

Statism and spiraling public sector employment and entitlement (once again cf. southern Europe) alter the public mindset (see Aristophanes’ Knights or Wasps).