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Things I'm reading and contemplating this week. Also, Christian Bale IS Patrick Bateman. That is all.

THE TROUBLED BIRTH OF AMERICAN PSYCHO

America Is Not For Black People

Line By Line: "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"

Robin Williams and the Myth of “Battling” Depression

Despicable Memes: How “miracle” jokes and inspiration porn demean disabled people.

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I think about racism alot because it happens alot.

Preview: No Selves to Defend – Marissa Alexander & A Legacy of Criminalizing Women of Color for Self-Defense

The Science of Your Racist Brain: Neuroscientist David Amodio on subconscious racial prejudice and why we're still responsible for our actions.

How LBJ Saved the Civil Rights Act: Fifty years later, new accounts of its fraught passage reveal the era's real hero—and it isn’t the Supreme Court.

James Kenneth Embry

James Kenneth Embry had a mental illness. James Kenneth Embry was a drug addict. James Kenneth Embry went to prison for drugs. James Kenneth Embry was denied medication for his mental illness in prison. James Kenneth Embry died of starvation in an American prison.

James Kenneth Embry was a human being. James Kenneth Embry deserved care on the streets of Murka and James Kenneth Embry deserved care in a cage in Murka.

Dammit, Murka. I'd bet $20 that this man took drugs because he had a mental illness. Instead of treating him, we imprison him and then instead of treating him, we kill him.

I don't have really anything else to say, except that we are not even close to the great country on Earth.

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Dear Murka, I love you so.


You'll Never Believe What Font They Use: An Interview with the Westboro Baptists

Dear America, I Saw You Naked: Listening to a TSA Agent

Arizona Town's Stray Chihuahuas Are Creating a Public Health Threat

Hummus Is Conquering America!

10 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America (A Post on Perspective)

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Between 1968 and 1973, somebody hijacked a commercial airliner nearly every week.

Queens of the Stone Age want your number, but it's not what you think — it's even creepier.

Stay gone, Snowden! Because despite what dumb people think, there is "no public interest exception to the Espionage Act".

The Race to Save Mali's Artifacts

“The Myth of Persecution”: Early Christians weren’t persecuted, says a historian of the early church.

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Vintage WTF: Bizarre Old Photos

Where Children Sleep: Photos of Children's Sleeping Areas Around the World

Vintage snapshots of creepy clowns: Eww.

Porn Stars With and Without Makeup: The difference is dramatic. Pardon the pun.

Food for a week: Photos of a week of groceries around the world.

Miss Universe Costumes: Srsly, Murka. Wtf?

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This week I bring you a list of lists. Some of these are inherently interesting to me, while others are astounding simply because of the time and energy expended to compile them. Some are pedantic, while others are heart-wrenching. Either way, enjoy!

People who have been in the band Slipknot, complete with a graphical timeline.

List of films by gory death scene.

List of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender-related films by storyline.

Women In Refrigerators: Not every woman in comics has been killed, raped, depowered, crippled, turned evil, maimed, tortured, contracted a disease or had other life-derailing tragedies befall her, but it's hard to think up exceptions.

List of English words containing Q not followed by U

List of U.S. state constitutional amendments banning same-sex unions by type

List of countries without armed forces.