Who knew a sleepy Saturday edition of small-city paper could have so much good stuff in it?

1. Harley Davidson dies.

2. A Rome GA theater, MB's, has donated about $1,500 of its proceeds from showing "Fahrenheit 9/11" to the Bush-Cheney campaign. UPDATE: Here's a link to an AJC article about MB's donating the profits to the Bush campaign.

3. In another example of what President Bush means by the "soft bigotry of low expectations," syndicated political columnist Bill Shipp refers to Dylan Glenn as "articulate." Glenn, who is black, was defeated in a bid for the Republican nomination in GA's 8th Congressional District. He may well be articulate--as might Barack Obama (a Harvard grad running for Senate in Illinois) and Herman Cain (who lost a bid for the Senate from GA) who have also been described as articulate. (Click here for an example of Obama.) On the other hand, how many times does one see the same adjective applied to white candidates? It seems that whites are expected to be articulate and only get singled out if, like GWB, they are not well-spoken. For blacks it seems to be the reverse.

NOTE: I was unable find links for the Bill Shipp story (Rome News is apparently uneven in what it makes available via the web), but I hope to find and add it in the future. Also, regarding the Harley Davidson posting, my posting is intended as a chuckle about the similarity of child's name to the motorcycle brand (which the parents must have chosen deliberately) not the child's death. Since I consider the birth of my son to be the most special moment of my life, I genuinely feel sorry for the parents' grief.