The column borrows heavily from new and old stuff, and puts it together clunkily. Of course, the obligatory racial history, and the thoroughly dishonest take that Huntsville resembles Vermont. The surprise that 60 years after MLK addressed segregation that a state could somehow persevere. MLK spent time in Boston in '64-'65 trying to desegregate schools up there, too. I thought it was funny the Canuck who's been in Bama for thirty years bragging about getting an MRI in three days. Must've been ordered on a Friday.