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Annnnnnd it's more on the Confederate flag issue.

It's an important article to read for two reasons. First, it describes how white supremacists have hijacked the Sons of Confederate Veterans. These days, the SCV is into talking about how much blacks enjoyed fighting for segregation. This is real. This is not a random accusation from the left wing. This is a major, important Southern organization being coopted by virulent racism.

Second, it also makes it clear that the Sons of Confederate Veterans weren't all racists or rednecks. Those who formerly ran the SCV are outraged and are working to take back their organization -- as they should. These are men who are proud of the Confederate flag, and who are also working against racism.

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I was thinking about doing my year's best film list, so I wandered over to IMDB to look at their list of the top movies of 2002 by popular vote. It's just weird.

I am not surprised that some movie fans decided to push their favorite flick to the top of the charts. Duh; it's an online vote. That's what happens. But from all appearances, we have a bunch of separate groups all pushing frantically without any hint of trying to pull down someone else. You'd think that the Nine Inch Nails fans might want to cement their #1 position by voting against theobscure Polish flick, maybe. And where are all the people who hate Michael Moore? How did Bowling for Columbine rack up a 9.0 average over 4,986 votes?