The soldier asked my name and did I come here very often

Well I thought that he was asking me to dance

In my blogwatch coat and hat and him in his red bonnet

We’d have made a lovely couple but we never had the chance…

Someone is back.

From Matthew Yglesias I plucked this interesting if intro-level look at South American immigrants’ run-ins with the US’s very different racial classifications and tribalisms; and from Amygdala I snared CAPTCHA, tests that tell you if you’re a computer or not. (I did fine on the first one I took, but on one of the other tests I turned out to be a computer. I can’t believe it–I failed a Turing test.)

And Glenn Reynolds’s FoxNews column on the African music and movie industries is super-interesting.