I will say Yay also but it's really up to you. I guess the question is, does carrying a flag around on your credit card count as "flaunting." Or better yet, are you planning on doing any shopping in the middle east anytime soon.

So it's the 50th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education today, and in honour of that day, instead of studying, I spent like an hour watching a documentary on CNN about the achievement gap in education today. The theory that some are bandying about is that the notion of outlawing "separate but equal" schools actually did a disservice to the black community in the long run. Then, they made some interesting contrasts between the academic achievement of inner city blacks with that of inner city Asian Americans, with predictable results. Of course, this is all a case of comparing apples and oranges, but I'm wondering, especially with the teacher/psych people around, what everyone thinks is the root of this gap? Obviously, there's no simple answer, but they interviewed a Chinese professor at Howard University (?!!?) who said we can't group blacks and Asians in the same group cuz Asians were never slaves. I mean..fine, fair enough, but there must be more to it than that? I mean, fine Asians weren't slaves in turn of the century San Francisco, but they didn't exactly have it easy either.

Finally, its been 15 years since Chang won the French Open!?! Man, I feel old!

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/tennis/05/14/michael.chang/index.html