I don’t even know what to say about this:
Based in part on surreptitious tape recordings, an FBI affidavit lays out allegations that a Sacred Heart pulmonologist kept patients too sedated to breathe on their own, then ordered unneeded tracheotomies for them — enabling the for-profit hospital to reap revenue of as much as $160,000 per case.
Ain’t capitalism grand?
If you don’t believe in sodomy-based marriage, you’re not prepared to endorse and sanction sodomy-based marriage, you have no place in this institution…
We’re getting to the point where these homofascists are going to force us to wear on our sleeves some kind of identifying marker so people will know who the racists and the homophobes and the bigots are, and can stay away from them.
NPR, “How to Sell Coke to People Who Have Never Had a Sip”
I knew Myanmar was pretty bad, what with the authoritarian junta in power and all, but no Coca-Cola polar bear ads? That must have been intolerable for the Burmese.
And two years later, here we are again. Go Bruins.
Black excellence circa 1966
Talking Heads | Psycho Killer
While this was playing, I was watching this gif of Slavoj Žižek and Charlie Rose that was a little further down my dash, and it was hilarious:
NSF gets everywhere, don’t they?
If you see a debate on the place of rape jokes in comedy, and your response is to go on Twitter and make vile suggestions about how the woman in the debate ought to be raped or is too fat to have to worry about being raped or any similar comment, you should probably just erase that tweet. And then go die in a fire.
Chart of racial disparities in marijuana possession arrests for the largest 25 counties in the US. From Dylan Matthews’s Washington Post article “The Black/White Marijuana Arrest Gap, In Nine Charts.”
Notice how tiny those bars are for Middlesex County, MA. I think our kinda, sorta decriminalization law went into effect at the beginning of 2009. If you follow through and look at the article, it shows the disparity in Massachusetts over several years, and that hasn’t really gone down. But the total arrests have gone down dramatically, which is definitely a good thing. Soon, King County, WA ought to start seeing zero arrests, which will nicely solve the disparity problem.
Of course, even if we start doing that all over the place, we’ve still got a racist justice system that imprisons far too many people to deal with. I wonder how many of the people pushing marijuana legalization as a huge civil rights issue will take part in that fight. But that’s a rant for another day.
Remember a few months ago when Marine Captain Matthew Phelps proposed to his boyfriend, Ben Schock, inside the White House and he said yes?
Well, they tied the knot this past weekend!
gives me hope.
I dream of a world that lets gay white cis-male military officers enter into heteronormative bourgeois institutions just like straight white cis-male military officers. I dream big. Love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal.
I don’t actually know who “they” are, but that is what they say, from what I’ve heard. My friend Nick says that when I was drunk at the bar Friday night, I agreed to be the singer for a band with him and a couple other friends if we could cover “Surrender” by Cheap Trick. I could totally have held out for more, but I guess I didn’t. And he says he spent the weekend figuring out the guitar part. The bastard.
My first instinct is to still refuse. He doesn’t drink, and totally set me up, which I don’t think is fair. On the other hand, I’m intrigued at figuring out how we might be able to make some sort of punk song out of this:
And it looks like I’ve got to learn some lyrics. It’s just such a catchy song. This could totally work. Or fail miserably. Who knows.
Le Corbusier, La Ville Radieuse 1935
I’ve always been fascinated, yet horrified by Le Corbusier’s ideas about how people should live. It’s all big identical boxes full of apartments, smaller boxes spaced out more for the wealthy, and huge roads connecting it all, all surrounded by parks. Hard to believe it was thought up by anyone familiar with humans.
Time for a new title image.
untitled_pregamma_1.42_fattal_alpha_1.28_beta_0.8_saturation_1.14_noiseredux_0_fftsolver_1 on Flickr.
The Tobin Bridge from East Boston. I finally got an HDR image that more or less works.
