This week has been a strange one so far. With all of the hoopla around Obama securing the nomination (and understandably so, given the historical significance), and the generally piqued interest of the public in this election cycle, the one post on P+P that garners the most spirited debate is one on gun control (directly below). I happen to be in a debate with one of the commenters on his own blog regarding the topic. Even mention stricter gun control laws in a fairly abstract sense and people come out of the woodworks. I would be completely in favor of having “Jay” write a piece for the site espousing his position (he seems pretty reasonable) as long as I could find someone who could present a counterpoint better than I am able to. It’s a complex issue, one that people on both sides are passionate about, and one that is receiving little to no attention so far this election cycle.
Speaking of passion (or lack thereof), I was sitting outside of a Subway eating a sandwich near Wilshire and LaBrea yesterday and couldn’t help overhearing the conversation of three teenage, African American boys. They were doing their best to sound hard as they played with their iPhones and kept watch over their Razor scooters, generally being goofy.  Ahhh, to be a teenager. But then, out of the blue, I hear one of them say, in a mocking tone as if quoting an adult that was lecturing, “But aren’t you excited about the chance at seeing the first black president?”
“Man, fuck Barack Obama,” was what followed. “He’s not black. Fool has a white daddy.”