WORDS COUNT - VOLUME 1

Fresh today:

1. Comcast reports as follows in http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-politics/20081010/Obama/:

At a town-hall event Friday in Minnesota, McCain took the microphone from a woman who had called Obama an Arab. McCain said, "No, ma'am," and he called Obama "a decent, family man."

What’s behind the words: an insight into a mindset. This well-intentioned statement is actually a prejudiced slur on male Arabs--if you are an Arab then you're not a decent family man.

(Just for fun, try substituting the "n" word.)

2. At a diner, my brother and sister-in-law are waited on by a Hispanic. My sister-in-law orders a Spanish omelet. He brings her a spinach omelet.