This year's rodeo brouhaha -- there usually is one -- surrounds the alleged lack of diversity of the event's staff, vendors and performers.State Sen. Mario Gallegos has filed a bill calling on the rodeo to open its books and get better about being inclusionary; local ctivist ben Mendez has circulated an e-mail calling for protests and listing grievances.The rodeo has responded, at great length.Some of this is inherently silly -- arguing whether Hispanic entertainer Little Joe got paid enough for
Photo courtesy Washington PostA Washington Post reporter was apparently at the offices of disgraced financial company AIG when she noticed something on the walls.Kid's drawings telling AIG executives to not feel so bad. "We know you're not villains," said one.Did some AIG executive order his kids' class to cough up some sympathy?No. It's a "Houston-area" school whose fourth-graders are responsible, the Post reports.Teacher Rebecca Chapman first told the kids abotu AIG's misdeeds, which got them
