Remember "clock boy," the bespectacled Texas adolescent who proudly brought a disassembled pre-digital era Radio Shack (remember them?) clock to school and showed it to his teacher?  Cultural misunderstanding followed.  Supposedly.  In the post-September 11 but pre-Paris, pre-Mali (remember that?) era, the teacher was concerned because the clock was packed in a briefcase with wires dangling from it.  Could it be a bomb on a timer?  The student's name was Ahmed Mohamed.  The boy's father was a local agitator.  And so the teacher said something, dutifully reporting his suspicions to the police.  The police questioned the student, receiving evasive answers.  More cultural misunderstanding followed.  Also, publicity followed. Some decried this as an example of racism, dreaded Islamophobia, and other politically incorrect, evil insensitivities.  President Barack Hussein Obama (D) invited the boy to the...(Read Full Post)