Interesting Articles

I'm working on some more detailed entries so in their place I'm linking to some interesting articles I've seen.

First from the NewsHour website an article on African-American recruitment into the US Military;

	Iraq War Impacts Enrollment of Blacks in Military

Next LA Times columnist Steve Lopez talks about comparisons between the most recent California fires and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

Katrina comparisons are a different class of wrong

Two articles on the importance of being the Rev. Al Sharpton

first Ta-Nehisi Coates : The Irrelevant Rev Sharpton

secondly a response by Charlie King (a members of Sharpton's organization): If He's So Irrelevant, Why's He in The Post?


Additionally, belated RIP's for Robert Goullet and the photographer Ernest Withers. More updates soon.