The Pint Man

by Steve Rushin

“Why do they sterilize the lethal-injection needles?”

“How come every Jesus—every Jesus in every church in the world—has ripped abs?”

Ninety percent of urban slang, like 90 percent of gangster rap, was sold to white guys from the suburbs, Rodney knew.

“God’s not a novelist,” Armen said. “Or not a very good one. I can’t follow the plot.” “And everyone knows how it ends,” Rodney said.