Today, it’s the 50-some-year-old existence of the Magical Negro.

In movie circles, this figure is known as a “magic Negro,” a term that dates back to the late 1950s, around the time Sidney Poitier sacrifices himself to save Tony Curtis in “The Defiant Ones.” Spike Lee, who satirizes the stereotype in 2000’s “Bamboozled,” goes even further and denounces the stereotype as the “super-duper magical Negro.”

It’s perfectly understandable that I never would have heard of this phrase or what it means. Movie people give me a migraine and an unholy itch on my trigger finger.

Except actresses. I can could somehow find a way to act interested. Not that I ever need to, of course. They’re as migraining as the rest of them, but at least they can mostly look good, and a good-looking woman can get away with a lot.

Via Andrea…

Meanwhile, we’ve got runaway Cubans landing in Miami — right smack-dab under the nose of — what? hundreds? thousands? - of people holding training exercises designed to stop runaway Cubans from landing in Miami. Here’s your tax dollars at work:

“We’re not embarrassed at all,” McDonald said. “It’s not uncommon for them (Cubans) to have landings.”

Tell ya what…I’d rather have those 40 brave Cubanos than any 40 of the Idiotarati involved in the Plame bore-fest. We need an exchange program — we’ll take the 40 Cubans and send Fidel the 40 highest-paid folks involved in Libby’s trial. We need to add some mediots to the program, too. 10 mediots & bloggers for each one of the 40 lawyers.

A former Navy sailor was arrested Wednesday for allegedly releasing classified information that ended up in the hands of a suspected terrorism financier.

Hassan Abujihaad, 31, of Phoenix, is accused in a case that began in Connecticut and followed a suspected terrorist network across the country and into Europe and the Middle East.

He was arrested in Phoenix on charges of supporting terrorism with an intent to kill U.S. citizens and transmitting classified information to unauthorized people.

But the Chatterati, all they can talk about is Scooter Libby — whom the idiot jurors found guilty,* then immediately started talking to the press and going on talk shows about Presidential pardons and sub-moronic ‘fall guy’ conspiracy-theorizing. These geniuses, who can see through the dark folds of Rove’s cloaks, don’t know the first thing about jury nullification, though. It pisses me off greatly to have to accept these fools as fellow Americans.

* And he was, so near as I can tell. Whether he should have ever been charged with a crime over such trivial gossipy horseshit — well, that’s another idiotic move for our unserious Chatterati. And a blow to our criminal justice system, wasting time, dollars, energy over Joe Wilson’s wife’s name in an op-ed column unread by anyone with a job that doesn’t require Beltway ass-kissing.