Mr. Crankypants here, sneaking onto the blog while my stupid alter ego, Dan, is away at some inane church event.

Mr. Crankypants would like to know what’s up with the New York Times? While the Chicago Tribune gave front page coverage to the exhumation of Emmet Till on Wednesday, the New York Times (or the New York Slime as Mr. Crankypants likes to call it) buried the story deep in the first section of the paper — and put it below the fold, no less. And their coverage continues to be less than satisfactory.

What — the editors at the New York Slime think only white people read their paper? — and do the editors really think only black people care about the Emmet Till story? Don’t they realize that the Emmet Till case is one of the biggest unresolved moral narratives of our times, impacting all our lives?

Silly Mr. Crankypants. Of course they realize all that. Of course they’re not aiming their newspaper at upper middle class white people! No, no, no. It’s just that the Emmet Till story is taking place in the Midwest, near Chicago, of all godforsaken places — which means it doesn’t matter on the East Coast. Moral, schmoral — it’s the Midw–

— oops, the alter ego must be back, his key is turning in the lock — don’t want to get into an argument at the moment — gotta run —