Chicagoan here. I picked up a Maxwell House Haggadah at the Jewel on Broadway near Berwyn Red line L stop this morning. Plenty of them there. Jewel also had Ring Jells, which my wife LOVES. She was raised Jewish. I was raised Christian, so I bought a ham for Easter, too. Overall, a good day at the Jewel.

Imagine the carnage if some inattentive or jerk customer gets in the 15 items or less express check-out line with 16 items.

Way back in the mists of time, my guidance counselor mistook me for the only other black girl in class my senior year (school and community it was located in was and is predominantly white). I needed to get my schedule together for spring of senior year so I had to meet with him. I told him I wanted to take a few…

He certainly did. He won the Heisman Trophy his senior year.

He sounds like an insufferable jerk. My dad loves books and his taste is rather eclectic. Fortunately, neither he nor my mother put any limits on what my brothers and I could read. I think they just liked it that we wanted to read. I like my dad better than this Ben Sasse person.

She really is a disaster. Does anyone even tune in for the train wreck aspect at this point? I mean, anyone other than those who watch because they’re paid to do so? I’ve only ever seen clips of her show. That’s enough for me.

My family was the second black family to move into the predominantly white suburb I grew up in. In fifth grade, I had a friend (white girl) named Deanne who never had any money who I’d go to this local store that I guess would have been called a five and dime back in the day. It was kind of junky. I’d buy some knick…

This is perfect. Thank you, sir.

She really is a feckless C U Next Tuesday.

Cue their parents saying that their sons are “nice, quiet boys” or some variation of “that’s not who they are.” It’s like clockwork at this point.

Your story reminded me of my grandmother (my mother’s mother) who was a domestic worker, too. It was the only work she could find in Virginia in the early 20th century. She was the live-in nanny for a well-to-do white family, looking after three or four children. My mother saw my grandmother only twice a year while…

Yep. Anyone who’s shocked—shocked!—that this is happening is gullible beyond reason. I remember reading about a Trump-voting woman whose undocumented Mexican husband was deported recently. She was shocked because she believed it when Trump said he’d only go after the “bad hombres.” She and others like her don’t get…

To them, it’s like they were watching a movie or were on a movie set, so it wasn’t real to them. That’s the only explanation I can come up with for why they’d say it a “fabulous” night. Plus, they figure they got good value for the money they paid for their Mar-A-Lago memberships.

Because of course they are. They’re making their own rules, betting that no one will hold them to account. It’s not a bad bet on their part because who has held them to account yet?

Finally, our long, national nightmare of POC getting all the lead roles is over. Thank you, Lee Daniels, savior of the nation, healer of racial divides!

At this point, there’s been so much publicity about this stunt, I think the only thing they’d trigger is some epic eye rolling from an overworked barista. Winning!

Funny thing is, I don’t remember Bollyn’s reactions to the nutters who seemed uninterested in the book he was championing. I think he thought just being able to hold the event was a win for him because once word got out about it, some people expressed concern, others outrage. Library officials made the appropriate…

I think I’m supposed to sound like I grew up in the most dire poverty in an awful, crime-ridden neighborhood. I’m supposed to speak fluent Ebonics. I grew up in a white, middle class suburb, so I sound like the people I spent most of my time around: my (white, suburban) childhood friends. I can’t tell you how many…

Thanks!

Longtime lurker here, I created an account just to comment on this. I was a newspaper reporter in suburban Chicago. I wrote about this Chris Bollyn dude back in 1999 0r 2000, maybe a year or two later than that because he invited some guy who’d written a book in which he theorized that the Mossad was behind the…