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...MATT: It would be hard for people to track these items down. I must admit, most of my stuff is Italian. I lived in Florence this past summer, so I have sort of a weakness for the boutiques there. The shirt is Italian; the pants are not! The pants are Perry Ellis, I got them at a department store. The shoes are from Milan. No buckle! I don't dig on the buckle. The belt is from the Mercato San Lorenzo in Florence; you can get yourself one for 12 bucks. Of course you don't need to pick...
...must-read new book called The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks, by Randall Robinson, which makes the case that white America is suffering from a massive case of denial about the impact of slavery and discrimination. He contends that most white folks just aren't emotionally ready to admit that their lofty position in the world is partly due to 246 years' worth of unpaid labor by millions of slaves...
...being STUPID, Kingfish?" said the Frito Bandito, as he began to deal the next hand. "If you could ever get white folks to admit that black folks are owed reparations for slavery, they'd probably try to pay it off with Confederate money...
...report did admit that the project "highlighted" some general conflicts of interest that could come up if HIID remained in its current capacity. Even with proper management, the report said, there are "unforeseeable risks inherent in a worldwide enterprise such as HIID...
...Weather is connected to ego, I think - nature projects moods upon us, and we project back. It's a variation on this pattern: A man imagines that the world must be incomparably better or incomparably worse in his time than it was before he arrived on the planet. To admit that life is 99.9 percent continuum (human nature and weather itself being more or less constant, with certain variations, and things tending to even out over the centuries, except for occasional ice ages) might make the man feel ordinary - or, in any case, not sufficiently superior to millions...