The unpeeling of the layers of racial fearmongering continues today as news outlets around the country pick up the story that, with no credible evidence or eyewitness acounts, the rapes and other atrocities purported to have occurred within the Superdome were false. Except rather than spread via an email instruction to “forward this to everyone you care about”, these rumors were disseminated by CNN, “the most trusted name in news.” What a crock.

What struck me about this Taco Bell manager’s small act of compassion was not how nice it was, but how obvious it was.

When I dropped Ben off today, his teacher said “The director wants to speak to you in her office.”

The pretzel vendors cleaned up at this event. There are people scarfing pretzels in the background of, like, every crowd photo.

The waitress seriously taking his order was hilarious, but if I didn’t have a kid, I would have easily assumed the kid would have been able to respond to a list of multi-syllabic juices.