Well, things have been pretty quiet here in Baghdad. I had been here almost a full week, and while I've heard folks talk about "hearing gunfire", I hadn't heard a damn thing. This place was seeming less and less like a "war zone" by the day. Then, around 9-10pm two nights ago, I'm out chatting with a couple of guys here, and I hear the following: pop pop bang pop pop bang pop bang bang pop pop pop DUDUDUDUDUDU (heavy machine gun fire....some...

I watched part of 60 Minutes this evening, and they had a piece on Morgan Freeman. Among the issues he talked about, race and racism was discussed. In my opinion, Mr. Freeman has a GREAT perspective on race. You can check out the whole story here . Mr. Freeman recognizes that the way to get rid of racism is to ignore race. I was perusing a local college class schedule, thinking about going back for some continuing education. I found a class labeled "African-American Literature". Why...