Somebody wrote the most amazing complaint about my writing: “I quit! Story comes across as having been written by a biased northern negro. MSM has enough of this!” A biased northern negro? I think the last time I heard somebody called a negro was at least fifty years ago. Hey, if you don’t like it, fine, but at least use an insult current within the last half century! I mentioned it to my wife, and she couldn’t remember that usage since the 1960s! MSM stands for - Main Stream Media. As one reader put it: “MSM=main stream media, aka what folks who get their “news” solely from Infowars call journalists of any flavor but their own.” Fascinating!
BTW, for the record, I am a white male born south of the Mason-Dixon Line and a politically moderate Independent.
The incident at Darton State occurred in January 2016. I remember that when it occurred several readers asked what Grim would have done. A little investigation showed that what occurred was nowhere near as awful as was initially portrayed. It really was a misunderstanding and was rectified almost immediately. One of my readers commented that since it disappeared from public knowledge quickly there must have been a conspiracy among academics and liberals to bury it. I offer another suggestion - Darton State no longer exists! A year later it was folded into Albany State University. As for the idiocy suggested, I can’t make this stuff up. Several schools have various liberal groups arguing for eliminating campus police departments. The bit about whistles is true! You can pick up your safety whistles at the Campus Safety offices at the University of Redlands in California and at Bates College in Maine (as of 2018.) No word on whether you should use them to create safe spaces, so you don’t have to hear unpleasant thoughts. My generation’s version of a safe space was dodging the draft and running away to Canada (or going to college in England and smoking pot but not inhaling.) This generation is a bunch of pussies! Then again, I’m just a cranky old fart.