February 2012
20 posts
You don’t care about gun regulation because the people you know aren’t going to die on account of an accidental or even intentionally shot bullet. There are neighborhoods where the fear of being shot is imminent, every day. You then ask, why cater regulation to the fears of a particular group? I respond, why cater regulation around people who don’t have a personal stake in the...
there was a beautiful pink cupcake in the fridge this morning which I ate without second thought…little did I know that it was ONE OF THOSE until I was sitting in court two hours later feeling PARTICULARLY entranced by the intricacies of the carpet design.
Watchgotagirlcrush:
Got a Girl Crush On: “YA-NE-SEN a Go Go” by Shishi Yamazaki
Awesome times a thousand!! This animated water color dance vid is of the artist herself “dancing through Yanaka, Nezu, and Sendagi area in Taito-Ku, Tokyo.” Check out more of her work here.
If this doesn’t make you want to shake a tail feather, then hit repeat until it does!
(Happy Friday!)
An Encouraging Introduction to the Law of Servitudes
Entering the study of servitudes is a little like diving into a swamp late at night, swimming and floundering in terror, and emerging quite fortuitously on some unknown shore in the morning. When it is all over you’re sorry that it happened, you don’t understand anything you saw but you know that you didn’t like it, and you...
BRAIN NOT FUNCTIONING JUST SIGNED UP FOR A 5K RUN who do i think i am?
AHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SUMMER INTERN AT THE VENTURA COUNTY OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC DEFENDER!!!!!
“Racism is still a really big issue in this country especially around immigration...”
– Hari Kondabolu - Mexican Stereotypes
(via warriorsrise)
Stay divine Hari.
(via dank-potion)
Freedom extends beyond spatial bounds. Liberty presumes an autonomy of self that includes freedom of thought, belief, expression, and certain intimate conduct. The instant case involves liberty of the person both in its spatial and more transcendent dimensions.
[The Bowers Court failed] to appreciate the extent of the liberty at stake. To say that the issue in Bowers was simply the right to...
The truth is, a series of small actions and events ended up eliminating a problem that seemed to hang over everything. There was no miracle cure, just the intercession of a thousand smaller sanities. Ending sentencing for drug misdemeanors, decriminalizing marijuana, leaving judges free to use common sense (and, where possible, getting judges who are judges rather than politicians)—many small acts...
When the New York City police stopped and frisked kids, the main goal was not to jail them for having pot but to get their fingerprints, so that they could be identified if they committed a more serious crime. But all over America the opposite happens: marijuana possession becomes the serious crime. When the New York City police stopped and frisked kids, the main goal was not to jail them for...
Which leads, further, to one piece of radical common sense: since prison plays at best a small role in stopping even violent crime, very few people, rich or poor, should be in prison for a nonviolent crime. Neither the streets nor the society is made safer by having marijuana users or peddlers locked up, let alone with the horrific sentences now dispensed so easily. For that matter, no social good...
“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via fornicating)
I JUST DID MY FIRST PULL-UP EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOW MY ARMPITS REALLY HURT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://unomoralez.com/img.html?cid=2&offset=19
Death penalty long read
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/the-last-line-of-defense/8875/
