So is black another word to chalk up on the PC banned list ? These niggers are obviously taking lessons from their kin in America, look at their faces, they are thinking of nothing but hitting the nigger lottery, as we call it here.

“No regrouping, we’re just chugging along,” said closer Jonathan Papelbon, whose only appearance in the Yankees series was in a nonsave situation.

It becomes as lullingly familiar as a weekly drive to a relative’s house: opening prayers like quick turns though local streets, long freeway stretches of readings, homily and Eucharistic prayers, the quietude of communion and then — thanks be to God — the final blessing, a song and home to pancakes and the Sunday comics.

Mr. Hawley did give me a little black rattoon, painted and gilt.