“We ... apologize for any offense that the ad *may* have caused.”

Let’s see now... Foreign (i.e., Chinese) misappropriation of US intellectual property is evil, but when the president* does it, it’s great. Right, got it. 

“I am pretty sure this child will take over the world at 20.”

And they’ve been like that (hostile by default) since *long* ago, way before Trump. They’re just worse now.

That’s worth a thousand times more than my one puny star.

THank you for the link to the story about the Pee Dee River colony. I keep forgetting that “American history” means “stuff done by English-speaking Anglo Saxons”.

I think over time the black community will catch up.

Something magnificently ironic happened while reading this article on my smartphone. Some combination of recent Google searches and saved colonies placed a MAYONNAISE advertisement between the last two paragraphs. Why not? It’s the perfect condiment for my fried pickles.

She recanted (see “The Blood of Emmett Till”) and she suffered no repercussions as a result.

“What are they going to say now?”

This is the kind of stupid s**t that derails a campaign - and here it is, in Warren’s face, before she’s even started. Besides Hillary’s emails, think back to the “Dean Scream” - it doesn’t take much to ruin a candidate.

Amen.

His positions on unions and Social Security would make him a socialist in the eyes of today’s Republicans.

This was just a bunch of kids who love to play, the purest amateurs. What’s the sense of this?

Agreed. Winners get to write history. It takes decades, centuries to start correcting the story, and even longer for people to accept it.

And in the post-Obama era, (which might be likened to reconstruction in its backlash)...

Why hasn’t anyone come out with mayonnaise-flavored chips? I bet they’d taste like my Aunt Becky's potato salad ifyou ate them with raisins.

Okay, thanks. This leaves a host of questions. Was Brown carrying legally? Was Wilson armed? If Mr. Bradford, legally armed, knew Mr. Wilson was unarmed, it makes sense that he would try to defend his friend. What’s the difference between “good guy with a gun trying to stop a bad guy with a gun” and “thuggery”?

What’s your source for that charge? Give a link. The AJC article (see link in Mr. Herriot’s first paragraph) doesn’t mention any such connection.

BTW, I gotta ask - do a lot of people actually read those blurbs? And do they decide whether or not to buy based on the blurbs? I just picked up a copy of “Friday Black” and there are about ten pages of blurbs. (Of course the stories are way better even than the most gushing blurbs suggested.) Maybe I’m an outlier,…