When I told my other globetrotter friends that I didn't intend to take sleeping pills on any of my upcoming red-eye flights, they looked at me like I was crazy. "You have to sleep! You won't be rested if you don't get some help!"

Apropos of smuggling coke, last year I was visiting my parents at their cottage in Maine, flying into Boston. I got to the cottage and unpacked my suitcase and found a large rectangular package of white powder tucked between my sweaters. Just under a kilo. I nearly shit a brick.

WHITE LADY GETS MARRIED TO ATTENTION

I'm so pissed at what's been happening, and just putting it out there, (since I saw an extremely racist comment on a blog post before it was deleted), telling African Americans, Latin Americans and Arab Americans to dress differently to "prevent harassment," and so no one "gets in trouble" is just like blaming…

The astounding realization that the FPD trying to kick out the media has resulted in this massive barrage of photos, videos, tweets, posts, stories, etc. is so amazing to me. What are you thinking, FPD? The only thing I could think is that these are a bunch of old, clueless people who don't really understand the…

Apparently "restraint" = not gunning down the protesters entirely.

How did our police become autonomous little armies?

"Restraint" to Ferguson Police = Arresting journalists, lobbing tear gas at news trucks, shooting unarmed black teenager, firing tear gas and rubber bullets on peaceful demonstrators.

"We've done everything we can to demonstrate a remarkable amount of restraint."

I'm starting to see reports on Twitter from trusted sources (i.e. every time I hope they're wrong, they're not) saying that St. Louis alderman Antonio French has been arrested in Ferguson.

There are reasons why white gun's rights activists can walk into a Chipotle restaurant with assault rifles and be seen as gauche nuisances while unarmed black men are killed for reaching for their wallets or cell phones, or carrying children's toys. Guns aren't for black people, either.

David Simon, the creator of The Wire, often talks about how there are really two Americas—one economically viable and mostly white, the other economically hopeless and mostly black. In my experience, no place embodies this division more than St. Louis, where I've lived the past few years. You can drive north from a…

"There are reasons why white gun's rights activists can walk into a Chipotle restaurant with assault rifles and be seen as gauche nuisances while unarmed black men are killed for reaching for their wallets or cell phones, or carrying children's toys."

Excellent piece Greg...wow.

It's not about you.

It must be terrible for black parents to have to tell their children "Even if you're unarmed, even if you're well-behaved, even if you do everything right, there is still a chance that a white police officer will murder you in the street with your hands up."

The craziest thing to me in the aftermath of these killings is how accepting most people are of the militarization of the police. I fully expect that when video footage is found (dashcam or otherwise), Mike Brown will have done nothing that could warrant a reaction with fatal force, but people will still look and…

I for one shall never forget. Because I have this action figure.

Color me surprised that all the boys are great genius artists and the one girl is a piece of art.

Vigilante justice. If I saw a guy's name on that list, I would avoid him if he were interested in me.