The Michael Brown case is sad. It's also less a racial issue, and more about the role of police.

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I was in Las Vegas all this week at a conference (I haven't actually written a new blog entry here in about six days, and was going through some kind of longing for it). If you've ever spent any significant time in Las Vegas, you know it's a totally different place than most of the United …