Oh, I love pancakes. It’s just they stopped loving me...

I’m sorry about the MS. My wife was diagnosed with that eight years back. I don’t know that anti-inflammatories help MS directly, but there’s a lot of other stuff that goes on with aging bodies where they can do some good, and every little bit helps. I worked a lot in heavy labor, and racked up some injuries along the…

“...nothing approaching evidence or science to back it up...”

Same thing as most days. Some protein powder, berries, fresh turmeric and ginger, all blended up with a bit of coconut milk and regular milk. My wife’s doc has her on a low carb diet, and I’m riding along. The ginger and turmeric really do help with the inflammation. Or so I keep telling myself. And if you add black…

We expect better? I’d say it’s more a case of Audacious Hope.

I expect the master-plan is to run “Hyde Park South” down to 67th over the next ten years. Maybe Marquette. Hyde Park’s celebrated diversity does not include many poor people. That’s not an accident. The University and wealthy Black residents have been colluding for generations to clear out low-rent people. South of…

I’m at 65th and Stoney Island. We’d be right at the edge of all that. If it happens. I was thinking about this moment, two years back, when a handful of kids were talking, (girls, 12-13) about things their parents had promised to buy them or do for them. An I-phone, trip to Six Flags. Disney World, for one. If any one…

I’m with you. I appreciate Politifact, but they got this 100% wrong. 

Whaaaat? I was thinking a “Black Panther, The Movie” shirt, and yeah, that would be worthy of comment in this context. But a “Black Panther Party for Self Defense” shirt? Yeah, that guy needs schooling. Criticism/self-criticism, and all that. Let him serve the revolution by picking up litter for month or two, and then…

“East Lib?” What happened to “Slibberty?” Guess I’ve been gone a while...

Michael! Congratulations on the book deal. This is such good news. I love your work.

Or maybe the ideology hasn’t failed, but is intrinsic to the whole carceral system, and they know with 100 % accuracy who they are, what the job they’ve trained for entails, and what it’s all for. They just missed the part where no-one was supposed to admit it. 1st rule of White Club. 

This Lapu-Lapu/Nikki Haley connection is far from obvious.  Are you trying to re-float the Duterte hoax? 

If Michael was allowed to be right, everything we thought we knew about being a Good White Fella would be tainted by White Supremacy. The best of of us, even Mayor Pete, would turn out to be profoundly wrong, in spite of having the very, very very, best intentions. There’s no advantage in that. And that’s why Michael…

Yeah, they’re pretty similar. One’s White Supremacy for environmentalists, feminists, and sexual minorities, and the other is White Supremacy for Real Christians, 2nd amendment enthusiasts, and a handful of avowed racial separatists. For the last forty tears, the Democrats have passed most of the legislation needed to…

Damn. I’m no fan of Johnson, but damn. It was common knowledge Lightfoot was going to keep him on through the Summer, (so there wouldn’t be a disruption ahead of the seasonal violence) and then make a change. She didn’t have to screw the guy like that. She could have asked for his resignation last September, and thanke…

Hadn’t read “White Trash,” so I just ordered it. Thanks for the recommendation. Couldn’t agree more about D’Angelo and Anderson’s books. Ibram X. Kendi’s “Stamped From the Beginning” has also been very worthwhile. There is so much good work getting done. 

Congratulations on ten years! And here’s to the next ten! What you do is SO important. I’ve been checking in here most days for the past two years, and it is so clear that you all work your asses off, doing what needs to be done. I’m glad you had a good time.

FACT CHECK:

OK, here’s how it is: the next child of God to say the name, “J——ie S—-t in public gets deported to Antarctica. Forever. Without a wifi connection.