It Isn't Nice

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Whatever this is, it's probably not the right place for people who, on balance, are less concerned with human suffering than they are offended by any breaches of etiquette or decorum that may happen along the way to ending misery.

About Jim (Or Stan)

Lawyer, spouse, dad, 30+ gallon blood donor, serving the SC Poor People's Campaign, old enough that young people are my key teachers, and always awkwardly navigating spaces where people like me are reasonably pegged as part of the problem.

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