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On catching predators.

katiebakes:

mikehudack:

newsweek:

Today in Things We Wish We’d Written:

“Crime of Shadows”, Mark Bowden’s Vanity Fair piece about the gray areas involved when police go trolling online for sex predators, is excellent.

This is something that has always bothered me.

Completely agree. This was an excellent article. I really dislike the gotcha method they use and I don’t think it’s very effective either. Whenever I watch To Catch A Predator I end up feeling bad for the Predator.

Emphasis mine. I have always said that this show is the only thing that could possibly make me sympathetic to pedophiles. Can’t wait to read this.

dcwhip:

mudwerks:

oldauntamy:

This is the best thing I have learned all day.

livejamie:

This is a Congolese “Sapeur” - They’re gangs of men that spend tens of thousands of dollars on expensive European designer suits while frequently otherwise living in abject poverty.

They have gang battles where instead of fighting each other, they have “Defi de Sape” - They go to another gang’s turf where their presence demands that the host gang run home and change into their finest suits to prove that they’re classier.

Their gangs have names like “L’Association des Anglais” (The Association of Englishmen) and “Deux Grands Dandies de la Capitale” (Two Rich Dandies.)

They are awesome.

right — except, you KNOW there’s a genocide in congo right now?

This is crazy/cool. Emphasis on the crazy. And yeah, FULL DISCLOSURE: I’m so not down with genocide.

Listening to The Eagles, btw. Take it easy, indeed.

We just crossed the entire island of Manhattan, without stopping once. During rush hour. On fucking 42nd St.

Ambulance!

We finally got a transfer to Jeff’s real hospital, and I am currently in the front seat of a state-of-the-art ambulance and we just got cleared to go through the cones at the Lincoln Tunnel to cut ahead of traffic. I feel 10 years old. Freaking awesome.

If you put it up to the vote of the people, we’d have slavery again.

— 

Jesse Ventura on CNN, 11/3/2009 (via lostinmiami) (via jonasfiel) (via qmuser)

I’m constantly surprised by how much I kind of wish Ventura was the President.

Maine. :(

ohhleary:

jaimeleigh:

“What these academic treatises ignore is the concern that Madison and others had that what they called the tyranny of the majority was legitimate. A majority, Madison predicted, often whipped up by demagogues, would oppress a helpless minority, a group so naturally small it could never hope to protect itself at the polls alone—using the government to deprive them of those aspects of life fundamental to a free society. No kidding.”

— Get Gay Marriage Off the Ballot - The Daily Beast (via tenrewnna)

Agreed. 100%.

Voter initiative is not an expression of democracy; it is an expression of tyranny by the people. In a true representative democracy, if the opponents of gay marriage were truly disgusted by Maine’s passage of a gay marriage law, they should have voted out supporters of the bill in the next election.

Of course, they know that this would never work. NOM and Focus on the Family and the Catholic Church don’t have the infrastructure to funnel millions of dollars into the coffers of 109 individual local races for the Maine House and Senate. They would rather gather signatures from a small minority of the total voting bloc, place a question on the ballot statewide, and then spend money to oppress a small minority that the state legislature voted to defend.

Legislature is how law is supposed to be made. This system is broken.

love is the drug got a hook on me.

i think we should stop being mean to each other. just be nice. it's not that hard.

(via spontaneouslove)

Absofuckinglutely.

OMG Bloomberg almost just said "Wankees" accidentally in his victory speech

…and he should never speak Spanish.

hman:

SEND XXL SWEATER-VESTS, PLS.

(FOX)

Fucking Christie?!?!? Blergh.

Now No is leading again

c-newt:

by less than 200.

I can’t handle this.

Well, yeah, I mean, go Maine and all, but still. Fucking Christie.

thedailywhat:

Buy This: Soft fleece and flannel oversized uterus cuddle buddy by Etsy seller VulvaLoveLovely.

Nothing could possibly top the seller’s own discription:

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Nothing.

See Also: Vulva Portrait Pendants.

[via.]

For sistermarymartha, in case she wants to trade up.

Update: OK, that needs context, because suddenly this post seems weird to me - her tags were: i may be tall and built like a linebacker but I still have a uterus Ha?

Virginia, New Jersey results follow familiar pattern →

notthatkindagay:

With Republican victories in the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races, two decades-long streaks continue: Since 1989, the party holding the White House has gone on to lose both the gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey. The streak goes back even further in Virginia, where the party holding the White House has gone to lose the gubernatorial race since 1977.

Fuck, does this mean I have to have an out-of-State wedding? Fucking Christie. Didn’t the unions and the mob have enough guys out there harassing people to vote blue? You can never depend on a corrupt system when you really need one.

Medical drama update.

Miglietta returned from Chicago and saw Jeff today. He is not only impressed by the speed of his recovery, but confided that he has changed his outlook in general when confronted with a case as grim as his was, and in the future plans to be more optimistic about this type of patient.

Jeff made this man, one of NYC’s leading trauma experts, who has survived 3 major disasters in his own life, feel more optimistic about patients in acute trauma because of his strength and resilience in the face of imminent doom.

That’s how fucking awesome my boyfriend is.