Gates brouhaha

A shocking admission for a blogger: I wasn't there so I don't know what happened.

One fact sometimes overlooked: Gates needed a cane to get out to squad car. So how dangerous can he be?

So we newspaper people like to take one incident and think we can find the meaning. That's like saying one day can tell you what the climate will be.

So what do we learn from this? Old men can be cranky, Harvard profs can be arrogant, cops can be pushy, people sometimes don't understand each other, it's not a racial paradise, no kidding.

OK, and even presidents blurt out things they later regret.