In Conservative America, two poor kids in a small rural town were awarded football scholarships and left home for college. Meanwhile, the rest of the folks competed for the handful of local jobs that provided decent pay. Twenty years later, both men returned to their hometown. One became very wealthy in the business of large-scale [...]
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Here’s a little bit of hospital slang I learned from a friend: the homeboy dropoff. In at least one Southern California hospital, that’s what they call it when gangsters drive their bullet-ridden or overdosing buddies to the hospital, only to drop the homeboy on the curb outside of the emergency room as they rush off [...]
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