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Las Vegas Metro does it with class. Proud cosponsors of a reactionary, victim blaming “Choose Purity” scare session. #AbolishThePolice

It’s the weekend, I have to drive for an hour, and one NPR station is running a pledge drive and the other is playing Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. #ThisIsMyVisionOfHell

Footnotes.

In which our Progressive Peace President is given a fitting welcome to the Philippines. #USOutOfPhilippines #USOutOfAmerica

Southern Nevada’s finest. “The 21-year-veteran of the department had a meltdown last week — apparently threatening bankers — after the off-duty officer was forced to wait a few minutes to cash a check at the U.S. Bank in the Vons grocery store at 45 E. Horizon Ridge Parkway, near Horizon Drive in Henderson. “A store supervisor ended up calling 911 the morning of April 25 after Long refused to leave the bank and continued his tirade, threatening and harassing employees, according to an audio recording obtained by the Review-Journal. “The assistant manager told dispatchers Long threatened to find him after he left work. “. . . Long had apparently waited for 20 minutes prior to the bank opening at 9:30 a.m., she said. But a customer with an appointment was called first. “‘There was another customer in front of Bobby, and he didn’t want to wait in line,’ the exasperated manager said. ‘Seven minutes after we opened, we helped him.’ “But Long threw a fit and closed his business account, she said. . . . “Long remains on the job, but his bank lost a valued customer. He earned $143,816 in salary last year, records show. . . .” #AbolishThePolice

Today: last final of Spring semester. Picked up rent a car for weekend. Tomorrow: driving down to Montgomery to see Timon of Athens.

#MayDay in Seattle.

So I hope you’ve all fucked off work and burned a flag today in honor of “Loyalty Day.” Here’s a poetical reading for the occasion: “SEDITION.” Edmund Vance Cooke (1920) You cannot salt the eagle’s tail, Nor limit thought’s dominion; You cannot put ideas in jail; You can’t deport opinion. If any cause be dross and lies, Then drag it to the light; Out in the sunshine evil dies, But fattens on the night. You cannot make a truth untrue By dint of legal fiction; You cannot prison human view; You can’t convict conviction. For though by thumbscrew and by rack, By exile and by prison, Truth has been crushed and palled in black, Yet Truth has always risen. You cannot quell a vicious thought Except that thought be free; Gag it, and you will find it taught On every land and sea. Truth asks no favor for her blade Upon the field with Error, Nor are her converts ever made By threat of force and terror. You cannot salt the eagle’s tail, Nor limit thought’s dominion; You cannot put ideas in jail; You can’t deport opinion. http://ift.tt/1iPcxkD