February 2012
113 posts
Homeless mom sentenced to 5 years in prison for... →
Tanya McDowell was living as a homeless woman when she was arrested for sending her five year old son to a school district where she- surprise- didn’t have a permanent residence. Ms. McDowell has said that she only wanted a better education for her child. Despite a change.org petition that has generated over 15, 600 signatures asking for the charges to be dropped against her, she was just...
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“Five years after the debut of his first novel, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar...”
– Junot Diaz is publishing a new book of short stories. (via libraryjournal)
Highly relevant to my interests.
(via paperbackgirl)
YAY.
Chicago Alderman Joe Moreno has said that he plans... →
utnereader:
Via Windy City Times:
According to a fact sheet put out by veteran activist Rick Garcia and Anthony Martinez, executive director of The Civil Rights Agenda (TCRA), the ordinance will mandate a policy for interacting with transgender detainees and set up a mayoral-appointed commission to oversee the treatment of transgender arrestees.
“It’s a human rights issue,” said...
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mikkipedia:
derasso:
tremblebot:
“Because the museum will be devoted to marathon performance art, it will feature customized chairs complete with wheels, dining tables and lamps. People who fall asleep will be rolled into a special sleeping area — considered part of the performance – and rolled back when they awaken.”
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Marina Abramovic Turns to Rem Koolhaas to Design New Performance Art...
Letter from Corrections Corporation of America to... →
dansolomon:
Because the profit motive is human nature at its best, and making states contractually obligated to incarcerate a certain portion of their population is just another step on the journey to Libertarian Utopia, right?
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Holy shit. →
tremblebot:
“Because the museum will be devoted to marathon performance art, it will feature customized chairs complete with wheels, dining tables and lamps. People who fall asleep will be rolled into a special sleeping area — considered part of the performance – and rolled back when they awaken.”
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Marina Abramovic Turns to Rem Koolhaas to Design New Performance Art Center
Two for flinching.
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Sweden Moves to End Forced Sterilization of... →
Swedish trans people and LGBT activists have something to celebrate this week, as the country—one of 17 in the European Union that requires sterilization for people who wish to switch genders on legal documents—may soon repeal the requirement.
Of course, no one knows when it’s going to happen. But still. Hopeful news.
Not-so-Finest moment as cop caught napping on F... →
No Wave/punk genius Martin Bisi catches a cop sleeping on the F.
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Watchavcinfla:
Right here, right meow.
Heavy metal grindcore mavens Hell Pit are raising money to put out a 7-inch record, “999 Lives,” a memorial tribute to the band’s recently deceased lead singer, Beezer.
Beezer the cat will be missed.
Yes, cat. Yes, lead singer.
This may be the most worthy Kickstarter campaign I’ve ever encountered. This is not a compliment.
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Jonathan Gold Is leaving the L.A. Weekly... for... →
latimes:
It’s official!
I heartily endorse this.
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The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy... →
…[F]rom a conservative evangelical seminary professor, writing in Billy Graham’s magazine for editor Harold Lindsell:
God does not regard the fetus as a soul, no matter how far gestation has progressed. The Law plainly exacts: “If a man kills any human life he will be put to death” (Lev. 24:17). But according to Exodus 21:22-24, the destruction of the fetus is not a capital offense. …...
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More human bones found on Long Island where series... →
Does anyone know if the Suffolk County Police Department actually does anything at all? Or has the entirety of their homicide investigation just been handed over to crowdsourcing?
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“Somehow,” he says, “Ira and I managed to remain some kind of friends.” If so, it...”
– ‘Satan Is Real,’ the Story of the Louvin Brothers - NYTimes.com
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Paul Babeu's Mexican Ex-Lover Says Sheriff's... →
God I hate Arizona.
Brush with the Black Death: how artists painted... →
The art of these centuries abounds in images of death, sure, yet it is also full of joy. The Europeans of the 1500s and 1600s created incredible treasures and beacons of civilisation. Far from being driven to despair by pestilence, it is as if they were spurred to assert the glory of life.
In the 21st century, nameless terrors grip us. We fear epidemics that never come. We imagine that if a...
I don't know much about law enforcement
aaronleaf:
but I have seen The Wire. And recruiting some dude for a terrorist attack, giving him fake explosives and then arresting him on his way to the capitol building, your fake explosives in hand, just doesn’t seem right.
Also, are you guys handing out fake explosives at Klan rallies and gun shows too, or just to Moroccans?
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Center for Investigative Reporting: Mentally ill... →
centerforinvestigativereporting:
With his handcuffs briefly unlocked from his wrists while he faced a judge, Miguel Canto-Ortiz wore the familiar mark of a detainee: a bright orange shirt from the Santa Ana Jail. But unlike the thousands of others who have passed through this courtroom, Canto-Ortiz was a man without a lawyer.
On the back of his shaved head is a scar from a traumatic...
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“Because the museum will be devoted to marathon performance art, it will feature...”
– Marina Abramovic Turns to Rem Koolhaas to Design New Performance Art Center
Two for flinching.
(via tremblebot)
Tapped In: The Bennington Blog: In 1964 Bennington... →
benningtonstudents:
In 1964 Bennington College hosted a Jazz Weekend that included a panel discussion on “the shape of jazz to come.” You can read parts of the transcript of their conversation, which ended up as a heated debate about race and jazz, here.
The transcript features the very odd combination of…
This is an awesome read:
[Cecil] Taylor: I am saying that [jazz] is an...
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