You're welcome

You're welcome, Neil.

You're welcome, Neil.

I said you're welcome, Neil.

I said you're welcome, Neil. This is Hell.

Manufacturing dissent since 1996.

This is hell when we did begin way back in 1996.

Some local activists would, every so often, be kind enough to offer a bit of friendly guidance in weathering the larger Chicago activist scene.

A scene they knew would be attracted to the content of our show.

One of the earliest points of contention was the use of the word American for people from

the United States, which I have always found problematic. Instead, I would instill do use phrases

like, here in the United States, we, or here in the U.S., we, or people in or of the United States.

But every so often, and this is recorded live with very little editing other than what needs to be done for over-the-air affiliates, I slip up and slide back into the

contention of referring to people here in the States, another phrase I've used, as Americans.

Some suggest using U.S. people.

I found that kind of clumsy.

After all, everyone from the Americas is an American, period.

To suggest that the people of your country alone can be called American is as arrogant as thinking you're better than everyone else.

That they are all backwards and somehow savage. Well, unsurprisingly, that's what Anglo-Saxon

settlers, east of the Appalachians, thought about pretty much everybody else. Later, when these

founding geniuses came up with the United States, the other Americans, those in South America,

who had looked up to their

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