I tried writing a piece about my trip to traffic court. I couldn't get it to work. It was about how some white people there, myself excluded, were being really stupid. They were basically shooting themselves in the foot in front of the judge and slowing things down for everybody else. I tried to just tell the story objective-like, but I couldn't finish it. It demanded some kind of conclusion, "and this is why white people are stupid." Unfortunately, I didn't believe my own bullshit. I couldn't follow the angle. The piece was called "white people are stupid" because I thought it sounded kind of funny, but then I went on to give a more or less serious account of some white people being stupid. The specific account, however, just wasn't sufficient to support the generality, and in order for the piece to be successful that support needed to be there. I removed that piece and wrote this instead.