diversity

There’s dumb stuff happening in baseball, both on the field and in the ESPN studios. Time to weigh in and set the world right, even though the dummies won’t listen.

On the media front:

Catch Centro-Matic at Grimey's for free at 3:30 p.m. today, or if you've got one of them there jobs, you can fork over the $8-$10 to see them tonight with Glossary at Mercy Lounge. From our Critics' Picks:

At least on Metro parent is concerned that the school rezoning proposal which would see a phasing out of the busing of children across Nashville for the purposes of diversity worries that her child’s presence in a decidedly less diverse, black school may be a danger to her child:

Everyone’s favorite diversity reporter attempts to unmask the funding behind English First:

Now granted, I know nothing about the residents of the neighborhood who oppose this project, but I'd be willing to wager a month's salary that the shrillest of the dissenters of the Pine Street project consider themselves members of the "compassionate conservative" club...

The diversity czar over at the Nashville Scene talks to a Vandy sociologist who tells him that Nashville doesn’t need Eric Crafton’s English-only referendum because Nashville’s immigrants already speak English:

Gee, I was offline over the weekend so I didn’t keep up with Little Green Footballs and their ongoing coverage of the anti-semitic posts popping up at Barack’s website.

A Germantown neighborhood association President is upset that the upwardly mobile returning to Nashville’s urban core may not be able to have it “their way” if the new Metro school rezoning proposal goes through:

Interesting development over at Ben Smith's house. Apparently, the CEO of FedEx Fred Smith, whom McCain listed as a potential Secretary of Defense, thinks George Marshall might've been right to oppose the recognition of Israel; and that John McCain most reminds Smith of Marshall.

From World Net Daily:

Two American-born pastors handing out gospel leaflets in a predominantly Muslim area of Birmingham, England, were threatened with arrest and warned of being beaten for committing what an officer called a "hate crime."