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Back in America, 4 days and counting

I got back a few days ago, I'm still unpacking... Some of the highlights so far: * Friday morning I was in the audience for a CNN/The Root discussion about being Young and Black in America . As a veteran of so many of these Washington talking events I am less than enthusiastic about them these days. Still, I bumped into a few friends, some of whom are neither young nor black. The discussion seemed so 1980s, with the panelists trying to figure out how to politically empower young black people. I guess it was appropriate then that the head of the NAACP was there. His most irrelevant concern was about hate talk radio...or I guess Rush Limbaugh being on the air all these years explains the high level of black-on-black crime. 20 years later, how is the Stop the Violence movement working out? The highlight of this particular panel was running into old friend David Plotz, who is now editor of Salon Magazine. I don't think I've seen him since college but he recognized me. I forgot

September 5

That time of the year again. Yes, it is my birthday. I will be hiding from everyone here this weekend. After all, if you take people out on your birthday in Korea, you must pay. No kidding. So I may just take the battery out of my cell and stop answering e-mails until Sunday. * * * My buddy and advisor Walter E. Williams will be hosting the Rush Limbaugh Show Friday noon EST-3 p.m. I interviewed him two or three times when I hosted my own show on XM Radio during 2007. I recorded these myself, April 28 and June 9 . I interviewed him another time but the idiots at XM 169 could never get me a copy of the show. * * * As I mentioned, I went on an MT retreat with the members of my swing dance group. It was fantastic. Drinking, dancing, games, drunken dancing... I posted a note in Korean on the organization's Website. I got back about 35 touching responses from the group members who heaped all types of praise on me. Unfortunately, 95% of it was in Korean so I struggled with understandi