If I was the DA, this would be my concern--that and every defense attorney is going to be filing bias motions in state and federal court. This guy proved to be a budgetary nightmare, which is more offensive to most bosses than the outright racism. 

In my job I often see confidential details about net worth and it’s a shame I can’t share it, because I get the most delightful internal fuzzies when my faking-rich in-laws get all snooty about someone not dressed to their liking who I know is a hundred times richer. 

My FIL was a democrat when he was getting sent to Viet Nam.

“Wacky” may imply less blinding violence, but I think you’re close enough for the win. 

I’ve enjoyed his YA superhero stuff and the Mistborn series, but I’m still burnt out on heavyweight sword and sorcery epics. 

They’ve dropped the “1979" now, or had last I heard. 

I hate to give my trashy cousin Susan any credit, but she used to leave the kids with my grandmother when she went to steal something...because if/when (seemingly always ‘when’) she got caught Grandma had to choose between bailing her granddaughter out or keeping the kids. She was out in four hours every time. 

My knowledge of robberies is limited to being a former defense attorney, but I am white so maybe my fellow Pasty-Americans will listen:

Sadly I know white people in my family who earnestly believe this. They laugh at the rural white people around us who think they’ll be murdered and killed (both!) if they set foot in our tiny city after dark, then they wet themselves in NYC if a POC asks for a dollar or talks loudly near them. 

Fortunately my cousins are moving onto heroin and we don’t have anything nice enough to fence for that kind of money. We can host Thanksgiving again. 

My mother is the queen of this when it comes to her drug-addled nieces and nephews. “But she’s trying to be a good mom” or “but he is holding down a job.”

My Oxy-addicted cousins have robbed each other’s places numerous times but they all have so much drug paraphernalia in the house that they won’t call the cops on each other. After they’ve all visited the pawn shop, the shop owner won’t deal with them anymore because everything they bring in is clearly stolen from each…

If I’d seen that live, I don’t think I could have come back to football. 

I’ve been fading the past couple years, from general apathy and injury concerns, but this year I really had to consider if I even wanted it on as background noise.

If only I heard that attitude here. I routinely hear people vowing to never return to our city because we’re so unfriendly we give them a $10 ticket for illegal parking. 

I cannot dispute this position at all. 

I can remember playing pick up hockey with guys who were goons in the NHL (Tony Twist, Basil McRae, anyone?) and their skill level was better than any D1 player we knew.

I saw 50 Cent throw that infamous first pitch at Citi. That will be the in-person sports highlight of my life. It’s already in my obit. 

I generally just bite my tongue and avoid this one, because I grew up playing and figure maybe some people aren’t familiar enough with the nuances.

Good for you for being upfront. I’ve often been cagey about it, because I don’t want to get into the “well, you don’t know love unless...” stuff my family loves to spout about kids.