- speaking as a paesan, I think we need to regroup around someone different too, like Marty Scorsese, Mother Cabrini, or like Lee Ranaldo from Sonic Youth
- A thing that is funny about the moral grandstanding by Repubs re: Christopher Columbus is that nobody knew or cared about him 100 years ago. His "holiday" is barely 50 years old and was pushed through by Italian-American lobby groups in response to...anti-immigrant prejudice.
