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Do these stories happen every year? This was posted yesterday at the Daily Caller: A California university says it was bad taste to serve chicken and waffles on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Officials at the University of California, Irvine, say the menu of stereotypical black food was served on Jan. 17 — the first day of the school’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. symposium. The dining hall advertised the meal as an “MLK Holiday Special.” The co-chairman of the school’s Black Student Union and another student lodged formal complaints. University spokeswoman Cathy Lawhon tells the Los Angeles Times that...

There is a great line in the movie, The Madness of King George. It comes when King George III of England, who is has been confined for madness finds out that his son, whom he hates, is about to usurp his power from him. In order to prevent that from happening, King George must appear before Parliament in order to assure them of his sanity by SEEMING normal. When the crazed King George sort of pulls himself together (temporarily) just before making his Parliamentary appearance, he explains how he was able to manage it by saying, "I have remembered...