Gotta believe you’ll go on writing as trenchantly as you have been, maybe in fiction or satire. Just want to make sure I can track you, you’re too good, just as an enlightened human who’s fun to read! Any ideas how, beyond checking with Amazon or Google now and then? —Old White Fossil Who Doesn’t Matter in the Equation

“Michelin tires??” Fucker is not only racist but totally juvenile. But maybe I repeat myself.

Tending on Facebook now: a post with photos of Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley, and on each one a badge that said “I voted.”

OK, I excused my brother-in-law for voting for Trump because he spent all his time on football and had none left for anything besides his ultra-right-wing friends, but Harriot has flattened that rationale. Medical problems have since killed the big lug, but I’d told myself that if he’d known one hundredth as much…

You can’t get more segregated than a “sundown town,” where a black person intending to stay the night would be met with the pitchfork brigade. James Loewen’s book of that title shows how widespread they were, far outside of Dixie. I came from one, as lily-white as you can imagine, in central California (honored with a…

I would say sociopathic rather than psychotic. Inability to empathize, most stunning during Caligula’s trip to Puerto Rico. (“Have fun.”)

Do the women Franken fondled want him to resign? That would be an interesting survey.

It IS a commercial, but not allowing her daughter the space to be a total unathletic nerd kept me out of the tearfest.

That’s Levi Strauss, by the way. invented denim pants and joined with a partner who added rivets in 1871. Travels in NYC by limousine.

Typo? That’s Valerie Plame, not Plume.

What’s interesting is that the phrase usually runs, “inmates running the ASYLUM,” not the “prison.” So he had to substitute a particularly fraught word for the usual one. Subconscious change? Just forgetful? A mental set more in keeping with his attitude toward players? Even more damning, anyway.

Damn, I love a gifted writer. “Handling two half-drunk bags of sentient privilege is light work.” As good as anything Charles Pierce writes over at Esquire. I’ve been keeping up with politics because of Pierce; now I get to get closer to the Black Experience thanks to Mr. Harriot. Can’t hurt.

@JadaG: Yeah, that caught my eye too. “They will turn themselves in.” WTF! I’m a New Yorker, saddled with a fortress of a police union that upgrades rapists and murderers to desk jobs after they’re convicted.

I’ve been going to a gym in downtown NYC for years. A real ethnic mix here. Most members shower, but there are some contrasting styles, overall. Chinese- and Japanese-American members are the least self-conscious re: public nakedness; African-Americans are the most modest, many toweling off inside the stalls and…

Another great essay from Harriot. Glad I didn’t read McArdle’s condescension first or I would have been pointlessly irritated. I keep coming back (as a white person who is to some extent “woke”) to Andrew Hacker’s signal work from the 90s called “Two Nations.” His thesis was that our country is so racist it might as…

We should all expect a media caught completely unaware when the island’s citizens start dying from completely preventable diseases and third-world reasons (dehydration, malaria, dysentery, take your pick). They will be shocked! to have to report what is going to be gruesome reality. You can’t have standing water like…

Kneel during the coin toss?? What kind of statement does that make? If this ultimately was something Gyree couldn’t abide, we should totally sympathize. The team “compromise” was a sell-out, pure and simple.

White people aren’t that obtuse. When they don’t want to accept something, they quibble with language. They know damn well the “too” is implicit. In the sixties in the south we saw black men holding up signs that said “I AM A MAN.” Even stupid racists didn’t try to argue that it should have read “YOU AND I ARE BOTH…