If You Had "Today" in the Pool, You/ve Won!

Mostly esteem and Marvel No-Prizes, though.

• Zandar on opposition to Black Lives Matter:

  And let's not forget that crime involving white Americans still encompasses the majority of violent crimes in the US, but anything and everything has to be done to paint BLM suppoerters are thugs, criminals, radicals and dangerous lunatics for daring to say "Hey, in 2015 America still has structural racism issues that are leading to the execution of black people at the hands of our government."
  
  The only reason any of us black folk exist is because we haven't been killed yet.

• The incident of the retired tennis player waiting for a car in front of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City.  Response of the Commissioner.
• Reasons for and purpose of drug violence, Johann Hari, AlterNet.

• Those dead horses won’t just beat themselves, you know.

  Laura Resnick, comment at File 770.  (You may need to scroll down a bit.)
• More research is always needed.