I have hit 5k twitter followers! Minuscule in twitter but flattering that 5k people trust me with seconds of their day while they are desperately avoiding work...

This is clearly a time to...

BROOD.

How to gin up these numbers?

It is clearly time for a twitter beef!

1/n What I need is to pick a largely artificial fight w/ intriguing personal overlays.

Someone with a larger twitter reach but not so large that I cannot imagine reaching it. Someone I respect... even like... But can fabricate a deep tension.

Frenemies make great reading!

2/

I try to avoid adding to the rage storm bit of twitter. But this one seemed to invite discussion.
Years ago I wrote a piece in @nytimes. The title (chosen by the publication if you don't know) was Can My Children Be Friends With White People?

1/n

nytimes.com/2017/11/11/opi… Not what I would have chosen but even if distracting it captured the stakes I wanted to discuss.

To this day, I get hate mail over the piece. It is unpleasant to write about and I am always impressed by those with thicker skin than mine.

2/n

Breaking:

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1273343649179369475

For those interested in intricacies, this is a head scratcher for students. Felony murder is USUALLY barred in cases when accused of this type of assault. But it seems Georgia has a strange take on "the merger doctrine" that allows this. Georgia!
Explanation? (Sigh)
Here we go: