Think of this as a parenthetical piece about all the hooplah regarding Michael Richards’ racist tirade during a recent standup show. Sadly, too many people in this nation are truly racist scumbags (whether or not Richards is, I couldn’t care less about really). I was just perusing the story about the groom and his friends who were gunned down by NYC police for whatever reasons over at Yahoo news. The story is disturbing enough, but one look at the story’s message board, and you get to see a whole lot of sad people come out of the woodwork. The point is, Michael Richards gets all the exposure since he’s famous, but there’s far too many regular folks out there seriously spewing the same kinda crap day in and day out. Have we really advanced as far as we like to think?