Cannibals, Neo Nazis, and Shakira

I know this sounds like a strange recommendation considering the source, but if you get Showtime, you really should watch Barbershop: the Series. You're probably wondering just what questions the film series (including Beauty Shop) left unanswered. Well, plenty. For one, can I watch this show and not feel vaguely uneasy, as the world's biggest caucasian? The answer to that is a resounding yes. Not only can I watch it comfortably, but I watch it enthusiastically, since it's very funny. I know it's a strange declaration, but I think that Barbershop is the funniest show on tv right now. Also, since it's on Showtime, you can watch it like two hundred times a week. Then you get to watch the same Dolph Lundgren movie afterwards. All in all, a winner. (Note to producers of Barbershop: if I'm going to use my bully pulpit to plug you, I expect something similar. Let's talk cameo.)

In other news, my email address has been mysteriously added to the Arabs Against Discrimination email list. I'm getting daily updates from these people, presumably under the guise that I am an Arab (false) who happens to be against discrimination (also false). It sounds odd, but there are many good times to discriminate. For example, I would not let a cannibal be my roommate. The same goes for Neo Nazis and Shakira. To me, that's good discrimination. I would put that right on the application: "If you're a cannibal, Neo Nazi, or Shakira, then get the hell out of here."

Now, if another email list started up called Anglos For Good Discrimination, it'd be another story. I see that list going awry pretty quickly, though. That just seems like a search string the KKK would be likely to plug into Google. Very quickly, our discussions would turn from how smart it'd be to keep kleptomaniacs from working retail jobs to how we must cleanse the earth of the scum people, or something like that. Really, I don't want to explain to the KKK about good discrimination vs. bad discrimination; I'd just have to leave the list. My name would still be all over this KKK affiliated distribution, though. That seems like it'd set a red flag off for future employers/federal agents/freedom fighters. So, I guess where I'm going with this, is that I'm not joining any lists either for or against discrimination. Unless it's an email list against pro/con discrimination email lists.