things i have learned from television

during the fifties and early sixties, there were so many earnest white folks who weren't racist but merely surrounded by racists that it's amazing racism lasted as long as it did. [1]

also, "house, md" has taught me that every medical diagnosis requires breaking into someone's apartment and looking through their underwear drawer.

[1] racism's over now that obama has been elected, isn't it? sorry? what's that? ... oh. nevermind.