Still no time to blog today, but I really have to point you to the awesome Showtime movie I saw last night: “Deacons for Defense.” It was a fictionalized account of a real armed black resistance group that faced down the Klan in 1960s Louisiana. Grim, sharp movie despite a good dollop of the usual racial-tearjerker cliches. (Klan montages, “arty” use of black-and-white footage, noble suffering black women who fail to be actual characters rather than icons, kitten-kicking white villainry.) The main character, Marcus Clay (a composite of three real men), was played by the excellent actor Forest Whitaker. Good stuff, I’ll blog more about it later. It’s showing again at 9 AM Saturday and 11 PM a week from today so set your VCR!