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Strike this

SFPD sergeant Peter Thoshinsky (helmet #2197) is recorded walking the police line, ordering his officers, “If they do not do what you tell them, strike them.”

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How it goes down

Not even working for Fox can save you: I watched as the LAPD destroyed a pop-up canopy tent that, until that moment, had been serving as Occupy LA’s First Aid and Wellness tent, in which volunteer health professionals gave free medical care to absolutely anyone who requested it. As it happens, my family had personally […]

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The long slow road to having nothing worth defending

The long slow road.

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Seasons

People speak of LA not having seasons, but it does. It’s just subtler. The pups and I ran up to the top of the trail on Lake this morning, and Pasadena is ablaze in changing leaves. Not that much different than Kentucky looked a few weeks ago. Most of the color comes from the native […]

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Everyone lives in NYC

I am definitely SOHO.

First they negated the fourth, now it’s the first

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Charles P. Pierce says it better than I: Your right […]

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And then there was one…

Armistice day, 2011.

A bunch of little old ladies in tennis shoes

Sidney Coleman, on his time at Caltech: Caltech, at that time was (and still is) a much smaller school than this. There were something like a thousand students, graduate and undergraduate together when I was at Caltech. Also it was out in Pasadena so it was the Caltech students, the Caltech faculty and a bunch […]

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Boulder is…

Boulder is San Francisco for white people.

R.I.P., Steve

Your vision lessened friction in my computer life, everywhere you decided to focus your vision.  Two weeks in Europe without an iPhone reminded me of that.  MacBook Pros, iPhoto, iTunes, iPods, iPhones, Shuffles, .mac calendar, contact, keychain, and settings syncing across all these devices, etc. Thanks, and goodbye. So it goes.

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