And don’t forget Kansas City Little Mickey Blue Eyes!

Ray Barboni is from the Little Chicago neighborhood of Miami.

As I said, present vs past could be an interesting angle, but I wasn’t distinguishing yet. As far as I’m aware (and of course my awareness is limited and there’s a lot of time for me to be ignorant of), there are no confirmed cases of just a rope by itself being used as an anti-black symbolic device at any point in…

I watched the first two seasons (corresponding to the first and third books) on Hoopla. I’ll be annoyed if this deal means the third won’t go there as well, because Peacock’s lag has made it unusable in my experience.

I agree on the case of a customer in a Japanese tea shop: correct the mistake and move on. But for a person with a platform to spread unfounded fear, like that aforementioned mayor or media outlets, I do think they deserve blame. And if they never receive blame for doing such, what incentive do they have to avoid…

The conspiracy theory is a fantasy which is hard to take seriously... but not because of other things LBJ specifically did. LBJ became quite unpopular among the left in his own time, which is how that conspiracy theory spread (often with an assumption that Kennedy would have gotten us out of Vietnam). The stuff about…

Maybe the difference is that I use DuckDuckGo, where that quoted phrase gives only a single result, deriving from the Jena 6 case, wherein an investigating committee concluded that the kids who put them up had no knowledge of any sort of racial angle (the actual intent was to mock the school’s rodeo team). Earlier in…

Wasn’t Farina’s character in Get Shorty from Miami? That might have been a casting gag.

I don’t think I read any of his columns until after reading the book (which at the time was one of the funniest things I’d ever read), but I was likewise disappointed with how mediocre the film was.

One of the weirder conspiracy theories I’ve read is that Hinckley was part of a coup by Bush against Reagan... and it SUCCEEDED.

People can’t do both really good and bad things? Containing multitudes: pretty messed up.

Merely saying he “never took the opportunity” seems excessively passive. There was a significant difference after the Gulf of Tonkin incident, and while it’s possible Kennedy would have done the same thing in his place, LBJ actually did do something rather than merely refraining to act.

“A little while ago” was when the exercise ropes made the news, which was why it came to my mind. And I don’t actually know if nooses were used to intimidate people (without actually hanging people in them) at any time in the past. I didn’t grow up hearing about them ever being used that way (unlike burning crosses or…

I’m not sure why you’ve got “the past” in quotes, because I didn’t reference it or make any distinction between it and “now”. Present vs past could be a valid angle to explore, but I hadn’t brought it up yet.

I thought their calling card was a burning cross.

I really liked this, and “Piercing” was interesting and surprisingly funny. It’s a shame he went on to do a “Grudge” movie nobody asked for.

Art can speak to “the human condition” rather than a temporal predicament.

That explains “The Numbers” but not the wikipedia list.

I don’t think anybody knows it for that.

I know lots of people insist Pixar movies are good, but those people also generally seem to think Toy Story is good.