Gender-Queer Santa, Tito the Builder, Singing Ewoks, Cool Nerds, A-Gays, Racial Profiling, Watermelon Rolls, and The Imperial Presidency

• Alternet: Is Obama's Education Pick the Sarah Palin of the School System?
• Border Lines: Prisons are Safe Havens for Investors
• States Without Nations: An Interview with David, Wrongly Classified as an Illegal Alien Based On Racial Profiling
• Professor What If?: What If Santa is Gender-Queer?
  
• Womanist Musings: Michelle Obama is NOT a gal
• The Christian Science Monitor: India's media blasted for sensational Mumbai coverage
  
• The Nation: Dismantling the Imperial Presidency
• The Huffington Post: 'Watermelon Roll': More Racism from 'Team Sarah'
  
• The Atlantic: You wouldn't make it in Postracial America
• Daily Dispatch Online: Racism is still deep rooted in global economics and politics
  
• AP: Immigrants Reshape Post-Disaster New Orleans
• The Boston Phoenix: The Year of the Nerd
• Men.Style.Com: The Rise of the A-Gay (?)
  
• 23/6: Tito the Builder...We're gonna miss you, buddy
• E! Online: Cue the Ewoks: Star Wars Hits the Stage