The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

Today is the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech. How did the Golf Channel decide to celebrate the occasion? By tweeting this: "Tweet your 'golf' dream on the 50th anniversary of MLK's 'I have a Dream' speech using: #DreamDay: I have a dream that..." Yes, dreaming about a hole-in-one is just like dreaming that we're all treated as equals, regardless of the color of our skin... http://thinkprogress.org/sports/2013/08/28/2542961/golf-channel-martin-luther-king/

A week ago Saturday, in the run up to Martin Luther King Day and the second presidential inauguration of Barack Obama, guns rights advocates got together to celebrate Gun Appreciation Day. It's something King would have supported. Even though he was killed via a gun, he was as pro-gun as John Bobbitt was pro-knife. When I think of Martin Luther King, I think about a man who stood up for the rights of darkly toned weapons. So, what stood out about Gun Appreciation Day this year? At three different gun shows, five people were accidentally shot. Yeah, read that over again - on a day when gun rights activists made their voices heard by holding gun shows on a day known as Gun Appreciation Day in an attempt to depict most gun owners as responsible and to suggest that no additional gun control laws were needed, five people were accidentally shot at these very shows. The first time I read that, and even the thirty-third time I read that, I thought, "This can't be real. The Onion...