An old article I had saved and never got around to posting. Relevant given the uproar over gay marriage these days. The same people who can’t stand seeing same sex couples want to celebrate their love are the same ilk who couldn’t stand a mixed race couple either. Here is how mass media helped blunt their opposition in an earlier age.

This week’s Sunday Morning was awesome. Expect quite a few links from it.

CBS Video link

After we moved to Rochester and I couldn’t find a job those first few – well, more than a few, months – I really got a glimpse at the stay-at-home dad life. And I didn’t care for it. Granted, there are worse abuses given to groups of people for a variety of reasons but being a guy raising a kid is no damn picnic. Here is some insight into yet another job that doesn’t get enough respect.

A cup of coffee can make you a terrorist in the eyes of the Feds. No, not so much handing over cash to some random Columbians. Just using cash itself.

That, and other ridiculously common acts make you anti-American in some eyes. You know, like being gay or Muslim or a voting member of the Democratic Party.

We live in a world full of idiots and too many of them have a say in how the world is run.

Here are the fliers being handed out for type of location. Of course, just looking at them probably makes you a terrorist too. Just so you’ve been warned.

I found this to be an interesting discussion on both our digital present and future as well as a running commentary on our visions of the future.

Our digital tools are finally being put to good use.

The English-only mobs are only going to get more bitter as this keeps happening. West Liberty, IA is the first town in that state to become majority Latino.

Now granted, every immigrant group has a mixed bag first generation concerning assimilation. That said, you hear a whole lot about it by the nativists these days.

So, yeah, Spanish is going to be more prevalent in these neighborhoods. Hell, get used to it. Half of my son’s TV viewing has some level of Spanish regularly integrated into it. It is happening, not because this batch of immigrants isn’t trying to become American. They are. My family is proof of this.

That said, the sheer numbers of leftover Spaniards/Mexicans absorbed into this country combined with the influx of Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, you name it, who have come to make a better life for themselves *is* changing the language as much as it is changing the view of what a beautiful woman is (more Sofia Vergara than Kate Moss, for instance), eating (salsa sells more than ketchup), etc.

You get the idea. America is adapting again. No one rails against the Irish for making us have St. Patrick’s Day. We don’t beat Germans over the head for trying to make us drink better beer. Cajuns speak whatever form of French they have. Chinatowns have their own lingo, as do Polishtowns, Little Havana, etc.

We take what the world does best and we make it our’s. And sometimes that might not look familiar to you. Get over it. Adapt and overcome. It is what this nation does best.

Mostly, it is a matter of phrasing in English. Racists love to point out how illegal things are when they are against it. Of course these are often the same folks who celebrate Southern treason and lament the loss of slavery. Don’t believe me? Ask them about the 14th Amendment.

In our various other ethnic cultures, the may not be what you would expect.