Question of the night

Did the founder of Ditmas Park blog and his colleague pay a young woman to keep quiet about a scandalous affair that the founder's colleague had been having with a reader?

Tips have been flooding into Ditmas Park Blog email saying yes. I know this isn't really related to Ditmas Park but it is interesting.

In other news...

NYPD settled with Sean Bell's family. It was the least they could do. I hate the cops.

DPB writer's boss blames NAACP

This is indefensible:

VandeHei: Let's not forget where this thing started. The NAACP came out and makes this charge against the Tea Party Movement. And we've probably done more stories about the Tea party movement than any other news organization. We've really tried to study this group and they are a very diffuse group. You cannot say that they are racist any more than you can say the Democratic party is racist or the Republican party is racist. So it creates this culture and it's a dangerous topic and it's a dangerous fire to light and so this is the outcome.

On Mrs. Sherrod

When Eric Holder called us a "nation of cowards" when it comes to race, DPB's very own Ben was upset. He linked to the racist National Review. He did not believe that we are a nation of cowards when it came to race.

Would you like to retract Mr. Smith?

Racist Coward

Racist Ben asks "Has conversation on race actually gotten dumber in Obama era?"

Yes Ben and you are partially to blame.

I will have more on the Shirley Sherrod firing a little bit later this evening.

Friend of DPB calls me a homophobe

What's really depressing is that I do think that things like using racism accusations to further some sort of weird personal vendetta is a horrible, horrible trivialazation of something that's still an incredibly serious issue.


What nonsense. Why would I have a vendetta against a gay and lesbian couple? Everyone is god's children. There is nothing trivial about my posts regarding the ongoing racism that occurs over at Ditmas Park Blog. Again, Bonnie, stop discussing racism as you end up sounding ignorant.