Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a brilliant speaker, fearless American civil rights leader, and tireless peace activist. Then some idiot had to cut his life short.

Why do idiot assassins always kill geniuses? Why can't they kill other idiots? I'm all for idiot population control. When my sister was in elementary school, her chorus sang 1989's "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel (sure, it's a clever musical history lesson, but get that song stuck in your head once and you'll curse Mr. Joel forever) and some of the lyrics were changed to make it more "politically correct," but they just ended up cracking me up. Instead of "JFK blown away" it was "JFK shot one day" and instead of "AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz" the line was changed to "AIDS, and Bernie Goetz" so, you can see, big difference there. AIDS is ok to talk about but crack, well, crack is wack, yo.

What was my point here? Oh, yes. That good people get snuffed out sometimes, in the prime of their lives, and it's lame. MLK Jr. helped build a bridge over America's racial divide in ways we haven't seen since. Very slowly but surely we're inching our way to a "colorless" society. I'd say everything will be fine in about 1,000 years give or take. Here's a nice story about an African American couple who celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary (60!!!) at a Buffalo Sabres game-- on purpose! Hockey: It's not just for white males with mullets anymore.