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To honor hitting the 1,000 mark for crafting these "sandwiches," Questlove, the drummer from The Roots, tweeted links today to 10 of them. The "sandwiches" are actually the songs you hear The Roots playing when Late Night With Jimmy Fallon goes to a commercial break. And website All The Way Live, which posts MP3s and videos of each Fallon performance, put the 10 tracks into a handy zip file.

The watered-down, sanitized version of Dr. Martin Luther King's message has too often permeated the discourse of racial equality, usually perpetuated by people who could care less about the content of one’s character. The people who laud him without understanding the complexities of the man and his message do a disservice to his legacy and the continuing work of social justice that remains to be done.

I reserved much of my feelings on last week’s catastrophe largely out of respect for those that continue to perish and grieve. The arbiter of morality, Pat Robertson, aptly exhibited the stupidity that comes with politicizing tragedy – I needed not join the asshole. My few Haitian friends, frat brothers and romantic indiscretions know my heart aches as if it was my own family lying beneath the rubble. My deepest apologies for the lack of facebook status changes.