Mr. Muddle's Befuddled Universe

Martin Luther King Jr. - A Historical Examination: The TRUTH about Kwanzaa

But our strength, as [Keith] Richburg [author of Out of America] points out, comes from real principles: tolerance, brotherhood, hard work, personal responsibility, equality before the law. If Americans really cared about racial healing, they would focus on those ideas — and not on a made-up rite that mistakes segregationism for spirituality and fiction for history.

via www.martinlutherking.org

The paragraph above is from an essay written by Tony Snow, which I discovered at the Martin Lurther King, Jr. website on this MLK Day 18 JAN 2010. Tony Snow is a columnist for the Detroit News.

I republished the paragraph here not because I wish to knock Kwanzaa, or the people who celebrate Kwanzaa. 

I republished the paragraph because of Keith Richburg's list of principles needed for racial healing. Five principles were listed in the paragraph. A sixth principle was listed in an earlier paragraph, but was omitted in the above list. I will redo the list, and I will include the omitted sixth item.

Keith Richburg's Principles for Racial healing

1. The accurate telling of history.
2. Tolerance.
3. Brotherhood.
4. Hard work.
5. Personal responsibility.
6. Equality before the law.

Happy MLK Day everyone! May the Dream be realized. May it live on forever!

News – Meryl Streep's Post-Globes Speech Shocks Reporters – Celebrity News – UsMagazine.com

Meryl Streep is known as a class act in Hollywood, so reporters were shocked when the actress, 60, cussed three times back stage at Sunday's Golden Globes in Hollywood.

Streep - who won best leading actress for playing Julia Child in Julie & Julia - was discussing the fact that Child was "not amused" by a blog centered on her culinary skills. The blog was written by fledgling writer Julie Powell, who vowed to whip up 524 of Child's recipes in 365 days. The blog inspired a 2002 memoir by Powell and Streep's hit movie.

See photos from all the Golden Globe after-parties!

"Julia Child was disgruntled because she felt this person was not being serious about cuisine," Streep said. "I think she was offended by the language. She's a lady of a certain age and certain time where you can't say f***, f***, f***, all the time, and she was not used to it, and I think it upset her."

via www.usmagazine.com

The reporter above not only was shocked by the use of the word ``fuck" but he couldn't spell the word either (see, ``f***"). Well, it's spelled F, U, C, K. fuck. It's slang for, S, E, X, sex. 

Meryl Streep