When I was in Little Rock yesterday, I went to the Central High School Museum and Visitor Center. If you're not aware, this was the place of one of the nastiest battles to integrate the nation's schools. I learned a lot of interesting facts such as that Arkansas' public universities were already desegregated at the time...that Little Rock built a new "black" high school so that they could show that the blacks would want to go there and not Central.

After seeing newsreels my whole life of the National Guard troops, the taunting of the new kids just trying to go to school, etc. it was really strange being there in person. Also, growing up in New York, Arkansas was like another world - somewhere I'd probably never see and couldn't imagine wanting to. It also felt awkward driving through what is obviously a poor African-American community to take pictures of something that must bring back such terrible(?) memories. Maybe that's what it's like for a non-Jew to visit Holocaust museums and the like. You almost want to apologize even though you weren't born when everything happened.

By the way, the Arkansas Governor's mansion, where Bill Clinton lived, is pretty much within walking distance of Central High. It is also strangely located in the middle of a poverty stricken part of town.

Say what you will about Bill Clinton, but the man was GOVERNOR of a state when he was 32! And he looked only 25! Man, no wonder he got all the chicks.