Florida

Florida, where they want to make sure only the right people vote, but they don't care who they execute.

Thanx to Radley Balko on Facebook.

Harassment

Yes, it is possible to be a dick without believing in God. And a child abuser without being a Catholic priest. Thanx to aquaeri. I recommend reading the whole post

Fairness

Beauty contestant makes reasonable comment about who should be eligible. Wins anyway.

Thanx to Shakesville

Looking at looking at sf

Jon Carroll and Maureen Kincaid Speller consider the New Yorker special issue.

"All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority"

Ta-Nehisi Coates loves this interview with Ralph Ellison. So do I.

Crime

But it remains a misdemeanor if the marijuana is in public view or is being smoked in public, and lawmakers and drug-reform advocates have argued that the misdemeanor charge is often unfairly applied to suspects who did not have marijuana in public view until the police stopped them and told them to empty their pockets.

Good thing the cops don't have an Indecent Exposure quota.

Thanx to Ta-Nehisi Coates

Psychiatric branding

Thinking that one is a character in a Philip K. Dick novel is now called the Truman Show delusion

Thanx to Follow Me Here

Libraries

Libraries are cool, and even more so if they're also dragons.

Thanx to yuki_onna