So I guess that whole “GOP rebranding” thing is finished, then.
David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser in Starsky and Hutch
True story: for years, I had this photo framed and sitting on a nightstand in my house. I bought it in some tourist store in Hollywood, thought it was AMAZING, and put it in my first house. It went with the full cast of The Love Boat (which I still have) and some other 70s TV show 8x10s that I put into frames and hung/displayed in my house instead of family photographs because of reasons.
regarding software license fees and development
Earlier this afternoon, I tried to open up Echofon, my desktop Twitter client of choice. It gave me a persistent “401″ error, which meant that it wasn’t working with Twitter’s API. I did some searching and learned that Twitter had changed its API, and if…
NYT columnist David Brooks is an idiot: “He betrayed our privacy,” Brooks writes about the man who leaked evidence of the NSA’s secret and sweeping surveillance program. You have got to be kidding me.
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Police tell a different story. Miami-Dade Police Detective Alvaro Zabaleta said it was just after 11am when officers apparently saw Tremaine body slamming another teenager onto the sand. Police reports say they then realised that no fight was going on, but Detective Zabaleta told CBS Miami that Tremaine refused to take officers to his parents and they were forced to leave their ATV to detain him as he started to leave the beach area. According to the police report, Tremaine became combative and clenched his fist as police went to hold him. ‘He attempted to pull his arm away, stating, “Man, don’t touch me like I did something,”’ the report ways. Detective Zabaleta said Tremaine’s actions indicated he was ‘resisting officers’ and meant he had to be taken into custody. ‘Of course we have to neutralize the threat,’ said the detective. ‘When you have somebody resistant to them and pulling away and somebody clenching their fists and flailing their arms, that’s a threat.’
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Moment police choke a 14-year-old with puppy after he gave them ‘dehumanizing stare’ | Mail Online So…police openly admit they slammed on the ground, choked, arrested, and charged with resisting arrest a 14-year-old playing on a beach with his friend and a 6-week-old puppy doing absolutely nothing wrong, and we’re supposed to believe they were neutralizing a serious threat? A threat to what exactly? A reality where black children are allowed to play on a public beach and it not be a problem? There is a petition you can sign here to have the charges dropped. I can’t believe they haven’t been dropped already. (via robot-heart-politics) |
Fiction is dangerous, Gaiman explained, because “it lets you into others’ heads, it gives you empathy, and it shows you that the world doesn’t have to be like the one you live in.” That imaginative leap into other minds and other worlds is surely the reason many of us read fiction.
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| — | Why Neil Gaiman Thinks Fiction Is Dangerous, and Why I Think It’s Dangerous | Library Journal (via libraryjournal) |
