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5. Obama has a Spotify (and I still don’t).

Michael Brick, writing for the New Republic, calls Jonathan Lee Riches “the most prolific jailhouse lawyer of all time.” Now, it…

It was as true as gravity; and too, like gravity,
a rule by which he had long accepted to live.

When the video went viral, a spokesperson for CERN assured the public that the event was merely an elaborate prank, a “work of fiction.” This would seem to put the controversy quickly to rest, if it weren’t for the fact that the man who recorded the act was soon after found dead.

When you strip someone, an “other,” of their individuality—their humanity—you implicitly strip yourself of it, too.

It’s not just about the Dreamers we may know in our lives, it’s about deciding what we stand for—as a country but also as individuals in this country.

These days I should know, should probably know, where it’s going.

I am talking to a human skull held out in my hand. It doesn’t talk back. So I dispose of it…