Stupid Stereotypes, Vol. I: Cancun Hotel Tosses Rigoberto Menchu

Nothing like ending your day with a story of overt racism. According to the Guardian and elsewhere, staff at Cancun's Hotel Coral Beach assumed that Rigoberto Menchu -- the Mayan activist, author, Nobel peace prizewinner, and current presidential candidate in Guatemala -- was an indigenous beggar or street vendor, and demanded that she leave the premises.

Sad, but not surprising. God forbid that a Mayan woman wear traditional Mayan dress.

On the other hand, if George Bush, John Edwards and every other white male politician who dons denim and work boots got mistaken for day laborers and sent out back... that would be funny.