Bill O’ Reilly On Ellen De Generes’ Side: WTF?
Posted on February 15, 2012 in Videos
Well, variety is the spice of life.
Corporations Don’t Bleed
Posted on February 15, 2012 in Images
Corporations are people? Didn’t know they could bleed.
The Internet: An Instrument, Not An Instigator, Of Change
Posted on February 14, 2012 in Articles
Recently, an image has circulated around the web and in the process has gained quite a bit of popularity. What is it? Nothing more than Homer Simpson’s favorite food, the donut, explaining the bevy of social media outlets in which we waste an inordinate amount of time every day. Initially, the donut seems to be an odd medium through which to explain media networks, however upon further reflection the relationship between donuts and social media is quite evident: both, when consumed in excess amounts are unhealthy and make us unappealing to others.
However, in between tweeting about eating a donut and posting a Lomo-fied image of the sprinkled pastry on Instagram, it seems that displaying your pro-donut activism has somehow managed to become a new property of nearly all of the aforementioned social media sites.
Now It’s Over, It’s Colder Outside
Posted on February 14, 2012 in Videos
Funny Girl by Pacific UV off of Weekends.
Are America’s Prison Towns Doomed?
Posted on February 14, 2012 in Articles
The Article: Are America’s Prison Towns Doomed? by Llewellyn Hinkes-Jones in the Atlantic.
The Text: Over the last 30 years, Texas built over 90 prisons, quintupling the number of detention centers in the state and earning the title of highest state incarceration rate in the process.
As much as Texas ended up an outlier, it was by no means alone. All across the U.S. during the 1970s, ’80s and early ’90s, depressed villages and hamlets in need of an industry, from the Mississippi Delta to the Appalachian Coal Belt, signed up to build oversized detention facilities on the outskirts of town, surrounded by barbed wire and klieg lights, in the hopes of bolstering the local economy with taxes, jobs and associated retail.
But ever since the nation’s crime rate began leveling off in the late 1990s, with the total state prison population decreasing for the first time in 40 years, there haven’t been enough inmates to populate these new-found penitentiaries.
The trade-off of becoming known as a “prison town” and being associated with incarceration was worthwhile for a municipality in financial straits. And states in need of a place to put their growing inmate populations during the height of the War on Drugs were willing to pay good money for it.
