Hello folks! Welcome to the Rattlesnake's Den. I'm new here, so please be a little patient while I figure out how all this works. For a conversation starter, I'd like to give a little background into who I am. I am a thirty-something, American male of English and Scottish ancestry working in the educational field. I was born and raised in Chicago, IL but currently live downstate. I was born into a Protestant (Episcopalian) family, but I attended Catholic schools from Kindergarten ...

As someone with a degree in linguistics, I found this article very humorous. Link John Derbyshire The Weeky Standard January 17th 2000 The Onomastic Cringe -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The indispensable Michael Kelly, writing in the New York Post (12/8/99, p.41), deplores the silence of the U.S. government in the face of a massive ethnic cleansing currently under way in Kosovo, this time "conducted by the Albanians again...

by Ron "Girl's Best Friend" Diamond One of the most frequently asked questions we get here is "What is a homey?" Although Rant N Irishman has done an exemplary job of defining it through his numerous Homey's Guides, I have decided to write a primer on the subject (Homey 101, if you will). First of all, a homey is not just somebody who is black. There are plenty of black men and women who speak normal English, study hard, work hard, and are excellent parents. Unfortunately, many of these ...