Black and White II

Malcolm Gladwell makes an interesting attempt to quantify how much revulsion people should feel when someone says something stupid at best and horribly racist at worst. I agree with him in his relative ranking of Mel Gibson and Michael Richards. Although Richards is getting more of a hammering, primarily because his rant was captured on video, Gibson's was worse, since it's easy to believe -- despite his protests -- that he really believes that stuff.

And as for Michael Irwin, as Gladwell says: Please. He's an idiot whose continued employment by ESPN is by far the most baffling personnel mystery on Planet Bristol. I don't know what Harold Reynolds did to get himself fired (other than his self-described innocuous hug of a female co-worker), but he must be apoplectic everytime he sees Irwin on the air.