Goodbye, Emmanuelle

Good Morning. Several new items today.

• If Tocqueville was riding around America today, would he call it a democracy? See Pierre's Tuesday Column, "American Apartheid."
  

• Who are the real predators? The Christmas season brings them out, and it's all about marketing to children, the new frontier of marketers' predatory skills. See "Emmanuelle's Children..."
  

• Candide's Notebooks contributor Ohdave reviews Enemy Combatant, the memoir of a Pakistani-Briton held at Guantanamo for three years. See "Inside Guantanamo"
  

• It's not just Arabs who lie about maps and boundaries in textbooks. Israel has been in on the act, too. See "Israel's Textbook Duplicity"
  

• December 19 is Carted G. Woodson's 131st anniversary. Does anybody care? Celebrate in quotes here.

Plenty more in Candide's Daily Journal. Thanks for reading.pt