"You don’t get $321 in fines and fees and 3 warrants per household from an about-average crime rate. You get numbers like this from bullshit arrests for jaywalking and constant 'low level harassment involving traffic stops, court appearances, high fines, and the threat of jail for failure to pay.'”

"I am convinced that the soul of the white church has yet to be ashamed."

It's almost as if Stop the Violence never happened.

"Every time we told him we loved him the demons living in his head took those words and rearranged them."

“If you were born before 1985, then you know what life is like both with the internet and without. You are making the pilgrimage from Before to After.”

"At St. Paul’s, several blocks north, the three unisex bathrooms are less fancy, but lines are long."

"Obama has limited patience for the idea that he should act like he's doing his job rather than just do his job."

"If you're a dad, get to those dishes. You might end up with an astronaut daughter if you do."

"What’d you do that for?! I don’t want any shark stinking up my ocean."

"They know more than 50 percent of my lawyers."

"He or she is a fifth-to-ninth wave feminist who can speak with authority about the patriarchy while mollifying advertisers and reviewing panties, simultaneously appealing to men but never mentioning the issue of class."

"Am I next?"

Steve Thorngate

The Century managing editor is also a church musician and songwriter.

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