“This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member of Congress, who was his friend. Her life was saved initially by a 20-year old Mexican-American gay college student, and eventually by a Korean-American combat surgeon, all eulogized by our African American President.” –historian Allen Ginsberg, via Mark Shields [Thanks to readers who corrected the misspelling of Ginsberg's name.]

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