If you’re having a hard time telling what this photo is of, it’s of a homeless man shortly before he died after a police beating that left him looking like this.
His name is Kelly Thomas and he is the face of violence visited upon the homeless by the police, and of the homeless by the homeless.
I have seen worse, but not many. Scenes like this are why people live in fear of becoming homeless and living on the street. It is why those who live in boxes, or under viaducts, …

Sixty years ago the US government deliberately infected almost 700 hundred people, many of them mentally ill patients, with gonorrhea and syphilis as part of a medical testing program. The people, all Guatemalans, were infected without their knowledge or consent and are now suing the US government.
It wasn’t the first time or the last time the government would experiment with deadly diseases on its citizens or the citizens of other countries, or on children. Age, race, health - nothing mattered really. And if someone hadn’t discovered the testing and blown …

Okay, I reread my rant about Apple this morning. My Mac is only getting worse. Apple is not going to do anything. I’m tired of it. You guys are tired of it. I’m saving my $$ for a new machine - I don’t know what yet. The cursor on this one jumps all over the place - Apple charges $49 PER service call and doesn’t guarantee an answer. At least I know I’m helping pay for Steve Jobs multi-billion dollar empire eh?
I wouldn’t be so frustrated if it weren’t for …

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I could not watch more than 10 seconds of this video without wishing to see the “Conklin men” in prison for life, bent over in the shower. You don’t get much sicker than these bastards. Is it cruel of me to wish violence on men who treat defenseless animals like this?
If not violence, then life behind bars.

I don’t support many causes and the ones I do think are worth supporting are truly universal. Emily Fitchpatrick’s is one of those causes. I met Emily online shortly after she left Billy Graham’s ministry to start her own - rescuing children from the sex trade all over the world. She was looking for a freelance graphics person. I was looking for work. And we found each other on elance.com. I learned a lot from Emily. It was humbling and sobering and shocking.
I learned that the average age of a …