Thanks Monique, that needed doing. But now I’m worried. What’s Michael going to do, when he comes back next week and finds us all acting like we’ve got a clue, keeping our mouths civil and our thoughts thoughtful? Maybe there’s a few people out here in the gray who will take it on themselves to PRETEND to be invincible…

Does the word “human” appear, at all, in either document? It sure isn’t part of the cited passage. 

Of course killing babies isn’t healthcare. Only a monster would want to kill babies. That being said, the medical removal of blastocysts, zygotes, embryos, and non-viable fetuses, IS healthcare. 

And the bill for reparations keeps getting higher.

Writing from ten blocks South, I am SO glad someone is finally stepping up to care for the urban professionals in Hyde Park. God bless them for their noble work.

If she’d just reported it, we’d never have heard about it and she’d be going about her life as usual. But she didn’t just report it, did she? Public person and some-time pundit that she is, she tweeted it out for all the world to see. Judging by what she wrote, she thought she’d be admired for it. The dragging she’s…

They totally have the power to arrest people for contempt. They use their own sergeant, but I think they borrow a cell, maybe from the feds.

Of course the “her” includes the baby. If the baby is female, she’ll get to live in a state where decisions about her reproductive capacity are hers to make, rather than a world where sustaining pregnancies and giving birth are compulsory, and enforced by the state. Kansas has affirmed that it is a state where women…

A kid I’ve known since middle school came through earlier today, with his graduation pictures, and to tell me where he was going to college next Fall. He’s been working various jobs for years, now, helping his mom keep his little brother and sister fed and clothed, etc. He’s going to be the first in his family to go…

That’s all great, but admit it: He messed up with the “She the People” event. That was a genuinely lame performance.

No one has to approve of the guy to vote for him. They just have to dislike whoever the Dems run more than they dislike of him. So, with 35% actively approving of him, he’s probably in great shape; he just needs 16% of the remainder to see him as the lesser evil. 

A note to everyone who is against the death penalty, except in such-and-such a case:

Yeah, it was a really rough weekend here. What’s that got to do with how fucked up the FOP is?

I really don’t see how a dog’s pleasure, and its owner’s convenience, make it ok to run around and piss and shit on other people’s stuff. “It’s convenient,” and, “My dog likes it,” aren’t going to lessen the sting. And yeah, it’s totally a White Supremacist thing, to push back when Howard says, “Please don’t bring…

True. But it’s also true that she said it, and led it, and it seriously fucked up millions of Black lives while giving abundant cover to liberal White Supremacists everywhere. And it’s effects aren’t even over yet.

Several of my favorite neighbors have had to move off the block. They rented, and their apartments have been flipped to condos, or in one case, to an air B&B. One of them landed well, a few blocks away — young, husband and wife, two incomes. The others have moved into shabbier places, in rougher neighborhoods. One had…

Shell, if you dig a little deeper into the the nature of systemic racism, it becomes clear that an individual White person’s sentiments, even the sentiment of love, do not lift them out of the toxic mess of White Supremacy any more than a Black person’s sentiments give them immunity. It’s an error to suppose that…

You are so right. Not caring is the epitome of White privilege.

No, not exactly hipsters. And, as I’ve heard it reported, their reasons for not vaccinating have nothing to do with an erroneous fear of autism. Rather, some among them believe that the vaccines contain animal-based ingredients that are not kosher. Many vaccines are cultivated in a proteinous broth containing animal…

Off topic, but related.