Marty Peretz, you are a racist jackass. The cops have already ruled out your paranoid fantasies, so going ahead with them at this point exposes your political and racial agenda. Remember when TNR was worth anything at all? OK, it requires a selective memory, but you could piece together some good issues.

It's been a real wake-up call in the past week -- not the event as much, but reading blog comments about it. Racism … not prejudice, not systemic racism, but real, pervasive racism that twists one's soul … is all over the place.