Please.

NO MORE LINDSAY COVERAGE.

I get it already--she's obviously got some issues to work out and it doesn't help that there's a camera in her face every time she turns around.

OVER IT.

There is actually IMPORTANT news out there. Perhaps you remember the groundbreaking Supreme Court decision Brown v Board of Education? It's the ruling that essentially allowed me to meet and become friends with all my white pals.

Well thanks to George Bush, whose actions, unlike LiLo's, are actually fucking our country over, well thanks to him we have a right wing Supreme Court who has decided recently that perhaps the decision reached in 1954 needs to be updated. You can read about it here. The general gist of it is that schools are now prohibited to use race as the sole factor in order to integrate public schools. And while this may not sound so bad--everyone getting a fair shot and all that jazz, the kicker and the real blow is that the Court has "declined to recognize racial balancing as a compelling state interest".

WTF.

The US is still very much a segregated nation. I forget that sometimes, living in NYC everywhere I look there's a different ethnicity. But where I grew up--if you look at it on the Rand-McNally atlas--my section of McDonough GA is actually labeled "Blacksville." When I was in 6th grade they opened up a new school north of my town and drew the district lines so that the kids that went to the new school were the kids whose parents were living in the posher part of town.

My senior year of high school, a new high school opened up only minutes away from mine. They drew the lines and the kids from Blacksville were left with my high school while the wealthier section of town got a brand new high school and middle school.

And we don't need Brown v Board? It's sad that we do. It's sad that we have to resort to government intervention to give people basic human rights. And it's sad that we live in a time when even these can be taken away at the drop of the hat.

Take a look at this and decide for yourself:

How far have we come since 1954?

Fuck Lindsay Lohan. That's not news.