The Chicago Sun-Times’ Mary Mitchell writes about something that’s just baffling to me. There are parents who are actually out there attacking kids who aren’t their own. As everybody knows, back in the day a friend’s parents had the right to lay it on you, if they caught you messing up too, but this ain’t [...]

They’re reopening the Emmett Till Murder Case. In times past, I probably would have been really excited about this, but at this point, I’m not sure what there is to be gained. I don’t know that there’s a political motive at work, but the timing seems to be awfully convenient. I would imagine that Black [...]

This is an accident. I wasn’t really meaning to change the template, I just wanted to see what another one would look like. After all that, though, I don’t think it’s all that bad. I’m just trying to make sure everything that’s supposed to be here is here. At any rate, this is finals week, [...]