I just wrote this bit of correspondence to a neighbor of mine in response to her musing about how racism, both overt and covert, can rear their (not ugly but everyday) heads in our otherwise chummy public house down the street. An out of towner went on a tirade about the NAACP meeting a friend of mine (non-black) attended and was gushing about. And ( Read more... )

"....You're still a fucking faggot."

I had been in the middle of a conversation with a guy I'd met about small university towns being brain drain economies, when I heard and finally registered the comment. The douche in question had already gone halfway out the door by the time he'd said it. To flesh out, it was last call, roughly an hour ago, and ( Read more... )