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This one's a softball.

The next one will be a bit more difficult... )

Related: Jeff Goldstein weighs in on the cartoon controversy...

"What was obvious to me from the get go — and I said this at the time — was that an Obama administration was going to be “post-racial” in the same way an Amanda Marcotte lecture on the politics of her gal gash would be “post-feminist.” We are going backwards in this country on issues of race and identity — moving more toward the dark side of identity politics than toward the idea that individualism transcends group affiliation — and so, as a country grounded in a shared set of institutionalized beliefs, we are moving toward the left not only politically but ideologically. And each time we do, we move further away from our own founding principles."

For William.