Watch out, white folks, people of color are catching up. Next stop, reparations.
On Tuesday, the Suffolk County legislature voted down a bill 10-6 that would have made it illegal for day laborers looking for work to congregate near public roads. The bill's supporters cited quality of life issues, and said that there were more accidents around intersections near said public roads. Natch, because people were speeding up to hit the day laborers.
In other news, results from a survey of NYC public school students in 2005 say fewer kids are drinking and smoking pot. White students are more likely than their yellow, black, or brown counterparts to use drugs and alcohol. (So, these numbers might be understated since they don't take into account all of the damage being done to livers and lungs in the city's tony private schools.)
A second interesting side note, probably related to the first, Staten Island had the highest rates of binge drinking. Here's a choice tidbit from Staten Island City Councilman James "Gramps" Oddo: "I blame mom and dad. Too many Staten Island young people are spoiled rotten. ... The same kid who probably answered yes on that survey is driving around in a brand-new SUV or luxury car. He's the same kid who cuts off grandmothers and senior citizens when they drive down Hylan Blvd."
If I had to drive up and down Hylan Blvd in my mom's SUV, I would keep myself pretty well pickled as well.
And, in national news, Al Gore made a very persuasive speech before Congress to say that the "planet has a fever" and used a weird metaphor about flame-proof babies to illustrate his point. The Dems kissed his ass some more and tried to pretend that they weren't horribly, horribly embarrassed by his presence pre-An Inconvenient Truth.
Finally, just to take care of some personal business, I mentioned the other day that number one on my birthday wish list (save the date: June 12th!) is that colon cleansing kit. I've added a couple other things to the list, which you can acess via my profile.
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Must be nice...the brown ones here are losing...one of the lawyers at my job referred to someone "speaking mexican." today. shit, there is so much that could be bad Georgia so far. I wish I liked pancakes, R2B2.
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