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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Any DCistas free on Saturday this looks amaaaaaazing
Join the Student Sit-Ins
February 1 , 7-8, 14-15, 21-22, and 28, 11 am, 12 noon, and 2 and 3:30 pm
National Museum of American History, Second Floor East
Audiences take part in a training session for the famous 1960 sit-in at a Greensboro, North Carolina, lunch counter. The piece is staged at the museum’s exhibit of the actual counter.
Why does it have to be raining? Yuck. If we had proper weather it would be snowing instead.
Oh well, at least my landlord will have to be the one to try to hack up the ice once this freezes (sorry Sue).
If it's performance art it's not very interesting.
Besides, if it is performance art, Andy Kaufman already did it. If Joaquin starts battling wrestlers or inviting people to touch a cyst, I'm calling bullshit.
I dunno though, I have a hard time not worrying for that guy's mental health. He's been through a lot. Maybe too much.
Oh well, at least my landlord will have to be the one to try to hack up the ice once this freezes (sorry Sue).
Is this where I admit that most of my sidewalk remains uncleared? I cleaned it all the night of the last storm and I woke up to find it filled in by the plow with giant chunks of ice. I was so furious that I left it. I feel badly about this, but I did try to move the chunks the next day, and didn't get very far...the chunks were too frozen together, and after about 1/2 hours of hacking away with a shovel, I had managed to clear about 10 feet. And not even down to the sidewalk.
I would probably feel more guilty about this, but everyday I walk on sidewalk that is the responsibility of the city to clear, and I am walking on about 2-3 inches of ice. I'll clear my sidewalk when they clear theirs.
I am a bad citizen, I know.
This is amazingly bad and disturbing....
Pa. judges accused of jailing kids for cash
For years, the juvenile court system in Wilkes-Barre operated like a conveyor belt: Youngsters were brought before judges without a lawyer, given hearings that lasted only a minute or two, and then sent off to juvenile prison for months for minor offenses.
The explanation, prosecutors say, was corruption on the bench.
In one of the most shocking cases of courtroom graft on record, two Pennsylvania judges have been charged with taking millions of dollars in kickbacks to send teenagers to two privately run youth detention centers.
"I've never encountered, and I don't think that we will in our lifetimes, a case where literally thousands of kids' lives were just tossed aside in order for a couple of judges to make some money," said Marsha Levick, an attorney with the Philadelphia-based Juvenile Law Center, which is representing hundreds of youths sentenced in Wilkes-Barre.
Prosecutors say Luzerne County Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan took $2.6 million in payoffs to put juvenile offenders in lockups run by PA Child Care LLC and a sister company, Western PA Child Care LLC. The judges were charged on Jan. 26 and removed from the bench by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court shortly afterward.
No company officials have been charged, but the investigation is still going on.
The high court, meanwhile, is looking into whether hundreds or even thousands of sentences should be overturned and the juveniles' records expunged.
Among the offenders were teenagers who were locked up for months for stealing loose change from cars, writing a prank note and possessing drug paraphernalia. Many had never been in trouble before. Some were imprisoned even after probation officers recommended against it.
Many appeared without lawyers, despite the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 1967 ruling that children have a constitutional right to counsel.
The judges are scheduled to plead guilty to fraud Thursday in federal court. Their plea agreements call for sentences of more than seven years behind bars.
I am a bad citizen, I know.
It's like you're not even Canadian.
Pa. judges accused of jailing kids for cash
While I don't usually advocate angry mobs lynching people...
Pa. judges accused of jailing kids for cash
reaches around on floor, trying to find dropped jaw
Blah blah Ms. Jolie blah, but take a look at this:
Myanmar's consul-general to Hong Kong defended the junta's policy [of not recognizing the Rohingya as citizens] this week by telling the South China Morning Post this that the Royingya are "ugly as ogres" whose "dark brown" skin is in contrast with the "fair and soft" ethnic Burmese majority.
Oh, because the junta hasn't been evil enough yet...
It's weird, though -- actual racism aside, you'd think the diplomats would know better than to say it out loud!
Edit: Link doesn't quite work -- just click through on the Angelina Jolie story.