White Sheets are the New Black

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WASHINGTON - Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott, ousted from the top Senate Republican leadership job four years ago because of remarks considered racially insensitive, won election to the chamber's No. 2 GOP post Wednesday.

Somewhere, Strom Thurmond is smiling, and somewhere on the other end of that great celestial avenue, God is saying, "what exactly are these assholes thinking?"