Hurray For The Goddamned Idiot!

Harper’s has statements by relatives of people attacked by drones in North Waziristan: The...

Thu, 31 May 2012 08:57:59 -0700

Harper’s has statements by relatives of people attacked by drones in North Waziristan:

The sudden loss of so many elders and leaders in my community has had a tremendous impact. Everyone is now afraid to gather together to hold jirgas and solve our problems. Even if we want to come together to protest the illegal drone strikes, we fear that meeting to discuss how to peacefully protest will put us at risk of being killed by drones.

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The first time I saw a drone in the sky was about eight years ago, when I was thirteen. I have counted six or seven drone strikes in my village since the beginning of 2012. There were sixty or seventy primary schools in and around my village, but only a few remain today. Few children attend school because they fear for their lives walking to and from their homes. I am mostly illiterate. I stopped going to school because we were all very afraid that we would be killed.

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The tribal elders are afraid to gather together in jirgas, as had been our custom for more than a century. The mothers and wives plead with the men not to congregate together. They do not want to lose any more of their husbands, sons, brothers, and nephews. People in the same family now sleep apart because they do not want their togetherness to be viewed suspiciously through the eye of the drone.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Obama administration considers any military-age male in the vicinity of a...

Thu, 31 May 2012 08:49:31 -0700

Ta-Nehisi Coates:

The Obama administration considers any military-age male in the vicinity of a bombing to be a combatant. That is an amazing standard that shares an ugly synergy with the sort of broad-swath logic that we see employed in Stop and Frisk, with NYPD national spy network, with the killer of Trayvon Martin.

(In fairness, Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News made the Zimmerman comparison first.)

[P]assing is never obligatory, and should be done deliberately. How to Not Kill a Cyclist

Wed, 30 May 2012 00:44:42 -0700

[P]assing is never obligatory, and should be done deliberately.

How to Not Kill a Cyclist

Updated.

Sun, 27 May 2012 23:48:45 -0700

Updated.

#ows

Sun, 27 May 2012 23:22:00 -0700

Midtown.

Central Park as seen from the 42nd Floor

Sun, 27 May 2012 23:18:55 -0700

Midtown as seen from the 42nd Floor

Sun, 27 May 2012 23:15:17 -0700

American Museum of Natural History, rotunda.

Sun, 27 May 2012 23:11:17 -0700

American Museum of Natural History, rotunda.

Fifty-something St., Manhattan.

Sun, 27 May 2012 22:49:31 -0700

Fifty-something St., Manhattan.

Williamsburg Grafitti

Sun, 27 May 2012 22:40:47 -0700

Sun, 27 May 2012 22:17:00 -0700

Cabs lined up on 56th St.

Sun, 27 May 2012 22:02:20 -0700

Cabs lined up on 56th St.

A monk gave this to me on the street. (I think he wanted to talk to me but I walked on.)

Sun, 27 May 2012 21:59:37 -0700

A monk gave this to me on the street. (I think he wanted to talk to me but I walked on.)

Cafe, Bedford Av., Bklyn.

Sun, 27 May 2012 21:57:06 -0700

Cafe, Bedford Av., Bklyn.

Balloon.

Sun, 27 May 2012 21:52:39 -0700

Alley off Colfax, somewhere around Steele St.

Sun, 27 May 2012 21:50:39 -0700

Alley off Colfax, somewhere around Steele St.

Manhattan as viewed from the end of 3rd St., Bklyn.

Sun, 27 May 2012 21:46:22 -0700

Manhattan as viewed from the end of 3rd St., Bklyn.

Joe smith teaches us to dry our hands. Via @JaredParker.

Thu, 17 May 2012 08:49:16 -0700

Joe smith teaches us to dry our hands. Via @JaredParker.

Katie’s dad FTW #doesanybodystillsayFTW? #isitokaytocallyouKatie? #shit. (It’s actually...

Wed, 16 May 2012 08:55:00 -0700

Katie’s dad FTW

#doesanybodystillsayFTW?

#isitokaytocallyouKatie?

#shit.

(It’s actually a Mother’s Day strip about how great Katie’s mom is, but Katie’s dad is as usual hard to resist.)

Chimichurri Sauce

Fri, 11 May 2012 00:42:50 -0700

Looks like something I’d like to try.