I’m not keen on white people using the word “nigga.” Personally, I’ve configured my spell check to recognize it as a word, but it’s not a privilege I’m sharing with everyone. But when Ted Rall referred to Condoleezza Rice as a “house nigga,” it was pants-pissing time.

I once said that I wanted to have bomanijones.com, my own website off the ground in September. Most recently, I said that a couple of months ago, but the original plan was for this to happen in 2001. Three years, two moves, and myriad changes later, here it is.