I am trying to avoid wading into the morass of national political arguments. I don’t have the time to have cable news yelling wars with every Johnny-Come-Bloggy on the internet. But I will highlight a fine piece by David Mindeman for MinnPost about the lessons that can be learned about race in America from the recent Gates/Crowley/Obama story.

Everyone involved was right. Everyone involved was wrong. Can our country handle that? Americans don’t do nuance very well, I have found. Serious discussions are considered liberal plots. Values are a right wing conspiracy. And race is not political, it’s personal.