The BBC World Service had a really good spot tonight about legislation to get Congress to apologize for never making lynching illegal. It's times like these when you wonder if the rest of the world thinks us all to be batshit insane children. The announcer's closing to the segment? That it all happened in "America's not so distant past." It kind of chafes my hide when folks say "well, what good will apologizing do now?" Atoning for so-called "sins of the far past" is still an important step. At the very least, it makes you look less the imbecile... but honestly, do we deserve to be this wealthy of a nation? How are we going to fare, in terms of karma, without making some reparations?