8459: Fuzzy Facts And Figures.

TGIF with a MultiCultClassics Monologue…

• The unemployment rate dropped to 9 percent. Just to be clear, is that the White unemployment rate, or does it include the double-digit rates that have devastated minorities? Let’s not break out the champagne yet, folks.

• The U.S. Census reported New Orleans has lost nearly 1/3 of its citizens in the past decade. That’s a lot of truffles and bonbons missing and from the Chocolate City.

• This Sunday, the largest cruise targeting gays and lesbians will be launched by Royal Caribbean. There’s a joke involving “Royal” and “Queen” here somewhere. Or maybe “Super Bowl XLV” too.