Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Kristof's katastrophic kolumn

Moonshine or the Kids?

A blogpost response here: Poor People Behaving Badly?

Read some of the comments -- they are quite interesting.

another piece: Pissed off by Kristof

btw -- the title is just an alliteration, not an allusion to the KKK.

3 comments:

nick said...

here's another story that proves that poor people are dumb:

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100527butt-smoking_baby_draws_global_outrage/srvc=home&position=6

Matthew said...

coolest looking baby i've ever seen

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