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Do I believe racism still exists in America? Absolutely. It is one of the worst calamities ever wrought on this nation, and many others. Do I believe Loren Feldman, in his weeklong parody/social experiment, toed the line? Yeah, I do. Did he cross it? Eh… who am I to judge? Is he racist? Heck no.

Many of the people who have defended Loren have done so from the position of first hand experience. I, like many of them, know Loren personally. I’ve spent days with the guy. I’ve slept on his sofa when I was stranded in New York. I laughed with him in San Francisco and Toronto at two different events.

By now, many of you have heard about the failed attempmt at humor by video blogger Loren Feldman. In the past, I’ve been pleased to call Loren my friend. He is funny, and very New York – two combos that I like. People like Loren often make me NYC, where people are real.

However, Loren took things a bit too far with his videos from a year ago. He stepped over serious racial lines, offending many people. It started with a video where he asks, “Where are all the black tech bloggers?” It ends with a series of other racist videos that resulted in the termination of his contract with PodTech.

Our society seems to be obsessed with dark stories. The latest CNN.com news stories seem to tell the story:

Report: T.O. tried to kill himself
Police: 2 Sago Mine workers kill themselves
Opera canceled over fear of angering Muslims
Wife dead, husband running; kin scared to talk
Clouds of locusts descend on Cancun
Widow: ‘Croc Hunter’ death [...]

As I was travelling last week, I had little access to a computer. I thought we would have wireless in the room, but indeed, we did not. My internet access consisted of a once a day “fly-through” of email at 90 pesos an hour. Needless to say, my blogging mind continued to roll and I [...]

A few weeks ago, Chartreuse initiated a call for several bloggers to go down to the bayou to do some ground-level investigative reporting in New Orleans. Mishikea Brathwaite, Travis Campbell, Loren Feldman and Candice Quates are the folks.
Okay so first of all I’ll commend for Char and all the folks contributing funds to this adventure.
But [...]

The Da Vinci Code. It certainly is interesting, isn’t it? I’ve read quite a bit about it but have not read the book. I’m going to pick it up tomorrow and try to get through it before the movie comes out but I’m not sure.
Here’s some folks around the blogosphere discussing it:

Happy Catholic is having [...]