I love Mark’s columns and this one reminded me of something. My kid, who is somewhat conservative, has a list on her phone. It’s called, “Places My Mother Is Not Allowed To Go Anymore.” Weddings are on it.

Oh God, that last sentence gave me back my life. Thank you.

Come sit by me and let's talk blood spatter patterns.

Annnnnd up to this point I was thinking, Well, this lady may well have some sensitivity, but when you did the "Murphy better watch his back" I began to rifle through the file cabinet for 5150 forms and a spit mask. If the spirits didn't take kindly to be exploited for entertainment the roads of Hollywood would be…

I often feel like I am the weaker half of the equation. I’m down to one Collie dog - first time I haven’t had a pack or at least a pair. I didn’t know if either one of us was going to do well. But he’s become my major domo - he supervises the Gang of Four feline group, guards the goats and turkey and when there’s a…

Now that he’s become a liability to the Cosby empire, I am taking small side bets on how long it will be before Bill “I Like Them Real Still" Cosby will be found dead with a Pudding Pop lodged in his throat. Miss Camille hasn't put up with that shit all these year to lose money on the old bastard now.

A clear indicator that you have way too disposable income.

Bond hearing within 24 hours is the law. Jails never close. It’s 24/7.

Thank you. I should have asked you if there was a factual basis for the stereotype your awesome mom defies, but your answer is illuminating. I wondered about the economic factor myself. I am sure in the cities it is very much a factor: but I’m in rural Florida and it used to be that we had an abundance of clean lakes…

Must be referring to that free floatingWindows OS you just summon out of the air. All the thousands I’ve spent over the years on towers and laptops and all I needed was a really good imagination.

I’m asking - with respect - about the origin of that stereotype. “Drownproofing” is a big deal where I live, where a lot of fatalities occur when a little one falls in someone’s pool. The classes are usually free at a public pool. My kid’s swim instructor was black and I remember her sighing as she looked out over a…

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd the idiots converge

God knows I try to stand with law enforcement whenever I can find enough ground to put two feet on, and I’ve occasionally had to do a flamingo stand when there wasn’t. But I can’t find enough here to do a toe-stand. If Sandra Bland had recent scarring on her wrists then she should have been confined on a 15 minute…

Chucklehead that I am, I shall plant myself firmly on a stance which will probably cause me to be Cersei Lannister’d off the page. You see, I am old as fuck and am therefore organically unable not to give advice.

For you, dear heart, all the internet happy in the world. “As is the way of his people” - That is awesome. Write moah!

My kid couldn’t believe it when she read it in school. She didn’t get it. She and I had black friends, she had black teachers, and we were about to elect a black president. “How could people be so stupid?” “Baby,” I said, “they still are.” But I also thought it was one of the most hopeful things I’d ever heard.

No. While he never became a pillar of sensitivity, my father expressed his shame and regret many, many times over. in the 70’s he was profoundly hurt when he happened to see a sailor, a black man who had fought beside him in WWII, on the street. You know how war buddies are. My dad hailed him with delight and the man…

Jesus Christ on a bighorn sheep. This is a visual medium. If it is TLDR why are you even here? Can you not find somewhere with lots of picture and no words? Do you hand back bank contracts and lisp “TL;DR -pwease tell me what it says?” Someone was nice enough to cut your meat and spoon it into your pie-hole. A…

It was Atticus Finch who taught me that the racism with which I had been indoctrinated was false. I lived in the world Nelle Harper wrote about. There had been lynchings in my county and we kept our clothes in a chifforobe. I knew that a white person could summon any black peremptorily to perform some menial task for…

Also, because you obviously have a good eye, even if it’s not the majority view, may I ask you to read either of the major Capote bios (which I CANNOT PULL UP TO CITE THANK YOU AMAZON FOR MAKING ME A SENILE ASS) and see how that changes (or affirms) your viewpoint? I would be genuinely interested...and saddened but…