Gene Lyons writes That'll Be The Day

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Attorney General Eric Holder thinks we're "a nation of cowards" if we don't want to sit around talking about race all day. In a speech marking Black History Month, he told Justice Department employees, "If we're going to ever make progress, we're going to have to have the guts. We have to have the determination, to be honest with each other. It also means we have to be able to accept criticism where that is justified."

Very well then, to be perfectly honest, I think President Obama's election and Holder's own confirmation as the nation's first African American attorney general indicate great progress. So how about we give racism a rest for a while? Personally, I'd rather hear Holder's plans for restoring the rule of law after the Bush administration's ransacking of the U.S. Constitution than for interracial group therapy. Most people got their fill of that during the 2008 campaign. Immediately after Holder's challenge, a dispute arose over a witless editorial cartoon in the New York Post perfectly illustrating why they did.

The cartoon depicts two cops standing over a dead chimp with two bullet holes in its chest. It's an obvious reference to a pet chimp that went on a rampage in Connecticut and had to be shot. (They're a terrible idea, pet chimps: five times stronger than a human and almost as mean.) Anyway, one cop goes, "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill."

Get it? The stimulus is so dumb, a monkey wrote it. Ha, ha, ha!

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