Another mystery indeed. It sucks ass. Seriously.

The face of someone who sees herself on the jumbotron when she's wanted for murder a few towns over.

A gay man showering with a bunch of straight men is nothing like a straight man showering with women. Maybe it would be if we lived in some kind of alternate universe where gay men were constantly sexually assaulting and degrading straight men, but until that happens, you need to get the hell out of here with that.

Read up on redlining. By forcing blacks into certain parts of towns, where banks wouldn't give them loans, we prevented them from taking part in the biggest investment most people make (successful home ownership). Combined with funding our schools by local (rather than national or state taxes), this has perpetuated…

Watching the Wire literally changed my worldview. I was taught, and totally bought into, the "it's their problem" way of thinking. After watching that show I couldn't help but do more reading and research about race and poverty. We all should be ashamed of ourselves for allowing things to be this bad in 2014.

Oh! So someone did already let him know. I hadn't scrolled down that far so I didn't see your post. Let's see if he'll even care to know what a practice like redlining has had on America's infrastructure.

But you forget black Americans are free to choose where they live! I mean, if they want to live in unrepaired hellholes, how is that the fault of good, Christian children of Poles in the suburbs of Cleveland!?

David Simon has, at times, referred to the "hopeless" class as "spare" people. We shipped the blue collar jobs overseas, and then we have a campaign of incarceration and neglect to deal with it.

Good lord, that first run-on-sentence is torturous. Great perspective, though.

You beat me to Exley. A Fan's Notes - while tangentially about football - has twice the real pain and human feeling than all these other books mentioned combined. I just cannot get into the Roth/Updike/Ford/Russo/ to a lesser extent DeLillo pissing and moaning any more.