A POSTCRIPT ON DIVERSITY: After writing yesterday's ramble on diversity in five minutes or less (and truth be told, most of the Camel is scrabbled together in five-minute bursts) and then posting it right away -- like so much spaghetti thrown against the blogfrigerator -- I found myself happening back past it, re-reading, sensing I'd missed something, misstated something, or otherwise yanked the pot off the flame too soon. And then there it was:

Real diversity includes the white guy and his American flag. (Funny how I've come to equate diversity with everyone else but him.)