if i didn't care
“Here it was again, the most ancient of roadforks, one that Paul had glimpsed before, in Kroner’s study, months ago. The choice of one course or the other had nothing to do with machines, hierarchies, economics, love, age. It was a purely internal matter. Every child older than six knew the fork, and knew what the good guys did here, and what the bad guys did here. The fork was a familiar one in folk tales the world over, and the good guys and the bad guys, whether in chaps, breechclouts, serapes, leopardskins, or banker’s gray pinstripes, all separated here. Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn’t — no matter when, no matter what.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
August 2010
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Man Faces Up To 16 Years In Prison For Videotaping The Police →
intoxination.net
The ACLU of Maryland is defending Anthony Graber, who potentially faces sixteen years in prison if found guilty of violating state wiretap laws because he recorded video of an officer drawing a gun during a traffic stop. In a trend that we’ve seen across the country, police have become increasingly hostile to bystanders recording their actions. You can read some examples here, here and here.
However, the scale of the Maryland State Police reaction to Anthony Graber’s video is unprecedented. Once they learned of the video on YouTube, Graber’s parents house was raided, searched, and four of his computers were confiscated. Graber was arrested, booked and jailed. Their actions are a calculated method of intimidation. Another person has since been similarly charged under the same statute.
The wiretap law being used to charge Anthony Graber is intended to protect private communication between two parties. According to David Rocah, the ACLU attorney handling Mr. Graber’s case, “To charge Graber with violating the law, you would have to conclude that a police officer on a public road, wearing a badge and a uniform, performing his official duty, pulling someone over, somehow has a right to privacy when it comes to the conversation he has with the motorist.”
(via digby)
Pretty (Ugly Before)
Elliott Smith
Elliott Smith - Pretty (Ugly Before)
July 2010
Can a young man with a knife defeat a grizzly bear? →
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Opinions vary. This is like the Dwight Schrutes vs. the Jim Halperts.
Red-Eyed And Blue
Wilco
Wilco - Red-Eyed and Blue
still stahk in fahkin bahstun -
i think i might forego my return to wisconsin and head back to harvard square to hang with the car talk guys.
You mean the MIT grads? You might actually find them at their garage, not in Harvard Square but on Hamilton Street in Cambridgeport (pronounced Cambidge-pwat). It’s the Good News Garage, between Sidney and Brookline Streets. (I used to live one block down.)
