friday reads

Dash-cam videos that appear to show South Carolina highway troopers twice using their cars as weapons to run down black suspects have sparked a federal investigation and public outrage this week.


Nick Turse: The Golden Age of the Military-Entertainment Complex


Carl T. Bogus: Praying for a Second Shot on the Second Amendment


Paul Krugman Partying Like It's 1929


Three State Department contractors improperly accessed Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama's passport records beginning in January, department officials said Thursday night, and an investigation into their motives and backgrounds is under way.


PZ Meyers is expelled from a screening of...Expelled.

wednesday reads

Washington Monthly: NO MORE. No Torture. No Exceptions.


Juan Cole: Five years of Iraq lies


Robert Fisk: The only lesson we ever learn is that we never learn.



Army Holds Annual 'Bring Your Daughter To War' Day


driftglass: When Your Enemies Are Your Leaders


David Corn: Obama tries to show the nation a pathway to a society free of racial gridlock and denial.


Scott Horton: The Assault on Public Integrity Continues


Walter Brasch: It's a Welfare State - If You're Rich


RIP Arthur C Clarke

tuesday reads

The Independent: China prepares for crackdown by clearing Tibetan capital of witnesses

McClatchy: Tibetan refugees brave the Nangpa pass.


AfterDowningStreet.org: ...“the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib was de facto United States policy. The authorization of torture and the decriminalization of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of captives in wartime have been among the defining legacies of the current Administration.”

Dahr Jamail: IRAQ: Five Years, And Counting

AlterNet: How to Become a Concentration Camp Guard Without Even Trying


BBC: Tent cities spring up in LA

monday reads

Sunshine Week 2008: March 16-22


The homeless population of New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina has reached unprecedented levels for a U.S. city: one in 25 residents.


Spencer Ackerman: Soldiers Testify at Second Winter Soldier


Ghaith Abdul-Ahad in Baghdad: Death, destruction and fear on the streets of cafes, poets and booksellers

Patrick Cockburn: How to Destroy a Country in Five Years


United Nations police in Kosovo have been forced to withdraw from Serbian areas in the divided city of Mitrovica after clashes with Serb demonstrators.


Scott Horton: The Case of the Amazing Vanishing Corruption Investigation


Greg Palast: Eliot's Mess


Susie Bright: Why WASPs Stand By Their (Cheatin') Man


Muff Thumper found not guilty. (via Lead Jammer)

sxsw - day last

Finally Punk


Monotonix

Unfortunately no photos from these great sets (some idiot forgot to recharge camera batteries...)

Mika Miko

The 18th show at SXSW by The Mae Shi

CPC Gangbangs

...so I might as well throw in photos of Zooey, Sharin and Lykke

sxsw - day four

The Jealous Girlfriends



Bodies of Water





Film School











Lykke Li