Zayn Gregory

Do they still have a functioning organ in there?

Peak Globalization was a hell of a moment to live through

My wife and I holding our first grandchild

New grandkid, who dis?

Once Ustazah Naomi has pronounced takfir on you it's all over, sorry

Consult L.G.Claret's Integral Principles of the Structural Dynamics of Flow

"9 miles southwest of Saginaw" according to this
bentley.umich.edu/news-events/...

That's fascinating, does it locate Sunrise on a map? My mom operated her own little Jewish utopian organic farm north of Detroit in Lapeer County for 25 years

Rumi (to warmongers):

What kind of lightning are you, setting farms on fire?
What kind of cloud are you, raining down stones?

What kind of hunter?
Caught in your own trap—
a thief stealing from your own house.

-- Rumi, "Water."
trnsl. Haleh Liza Gafori

The Malaysia My Second Home retirement program is a pretty good deal these days - I'm hoping to get my folks to relocate here on it.

My children were all raised here in Malaysia but have been to the US several times. Not one of them wants to make a life for themselves there. They find it frightening

Oh sorry Professional Middle Class. Moving to Malaysia for me meant substantially less money in absolute terms but big gains in education, safety, community, respect, vacation time, health care ...

Add to that the majority of white Americans do not have US ancestry that predates the civil war while nearly all Black Americans do ...

PMC quality of life in the states is really pretty mid

About 30% of all Muslims in America are African-American converts and their descendants, who are well into their third and fourth generations. Assimilate to what? Go back to where?

The Mackinac Strait was briefly famous when a storm blew a Yugo clean off the bridge

Detroit

its an iranian missile with a message written on it in Persian

the message, translated, reads "in memory of the victims of epstein island"

omfg

Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.

Thanks, Marcus. They would have been around here somewhere I think

I'd only ever worry if there was someone else out on foot but being the only teenager in the motor city without a vehicle that almost never happened...

Up to Chicago or orangelawn before turning into the neighborhood, not so far at that point I think from the old Rouge Park police stables where Dad and I would go collect horse manure for the garden. Can't find it on the map anymore, maybe it's gone

Cross the tracks and out onto Burt Road and the green of the City golf course and the driving range behind a tall tall fence

Skirt Rouge Park down into a piece of old Rouge river bed that looks more like backwoods Appalachia than part of a city of a million. "I love you Jesus" written with a child's finger on the inside of a filthy windowpane

Lahser emerges from Outer Dr subjugation to run one lonely block longer before it croaks.

I was the only teenager in the motor city without access to a car, or so it felt. So a date went from a 5-min drive to an hour-long expedition through unfamiliar hoods to her stoop

The internet still has a way of delivering - my high school sweetheart lived just around the corner from this house.

Welp I guess the nice thing about moving precisely halfway around the world is it makes no difference if you fly east or west to go home.

Eyy my high school sweetheart lived literally around the corner on Vaughan

Picking up the iftar meal at a nice Indonesian place and it suddenly dawns on me that balado just means berlada. Lambat betul I ni