Photogs outnumber Real People by a ratio of 3:1.
The artist’s rendering of “before.”
Because “after” won’t have that Norman Rockwell charm.
Closing early? But there will be loads of street traffic!
White Flight? I love that album!
spotted in oakland this evening, painting boarded storefronts in preparation/anticipation of riots.
IS OAKLAND BURNING.COM
Live streaming update with up-to-second coverage from the Oscar Grant fallout.
Oh. Now I get it. Passover. Literally, “pass over.”
I am so dense sometimes.
(From yesterday’s staff meeting:)
boss: We should lock the doors.
generic: That would be wise, I think.
boss: And we should put that Oscar Grant poster on the front door.
generic: What?
boss: The one they keep posting.
generic: Why?
boss: So they won’t vandalize our building.
generic: …?
boss: They’ll see the poster on our front door and know we’re on their side.
generic: I don’t think riots are that discerning.
coworker: It can’t hurt.
generic: What are we, ancient Israelites?
boss: … ?
generic: You know, how the Angel of Death came and… I don’t know, killed all the 1st born sons of every house?
coworker: What the fuck are you talking about?
generic: They marked the door! I think. With like, a red X of blood or something. It was a code for the angel to only enter Egyptian houses, the ones without the X.
boss: Oh.
generic: You don’t want us to be an Egyptian house. You want us to be a Jewish house. In this particular analogy.
boss: Right.
coworker: Shit’s about to get biblical.
boss: Or not.
generic: Or not.
- 2nd-degree murder: Mehserle knew the actions he was taking could cause a death but took those actions anyway.
- Voluntary manslaughter: Mehserle acted in the heat of passion or Mehserle believed his life was in danger but used too much force in defending himself.
- Involuntary manslaughter: Mehserle committed an act that posed a high risk of death or great injury because of the way the act was committed. Or, Mehserle’s actions could be found by a reasonable person to be reckless.
Judge ruled out Murder One, which seems fair. Not much aforethought in Johnny-Trigger, I don’t think.
The max for voluntary manslaughter in California is 11 years. And they will riot in the Biggety O if that’s what’s behind door #2. (Hell, no one worth knowing hasn’t lost a decade to a bad decision or two.)
The interesting question is: How favorable a verdict to the defense would avoid some overturned cars? If he gets 30 years instead of life, do they just loot some stores? How do you half-ass a riot? Isn’t it kind of an all-or-nothing affair?
Remember, Bay Area juries are notoriously lenient and favorable to the defense. All that permissiveness comes home to roost.
More quantifiable evidence that San Francisco is better than your town.
Figuring out how to locate the smartest concentration of people in any one place is no easy feat.
Typically, it’s either been measured by the proportion of college-degree holders or the raw number of college-degree holders that accumulate in a given place. Both approaches, according to Rob Pitingolo, an economics brainiac and 2010 college graduate, have flaws:
“The theory that there is economic value to having smart people together rests on the assumption that smart people collaborate with each other. You could have a whole bunch of smart people in one place, but if they don’t interact with each other, what’s the value?”
Pitingolo instead calculates what he calls “educational attainment density” by measuring college degree holders per square mile.
Strangely enough, I don’t see Oakland on this chart.
Oh. There it is.
Lunch in Oakland near a playground.
Saw kids playing with these cool liquid balls of metal aka quicksilver aka mercury aka toxic aka holy fuck what the hell are these kids doing with toxic liquid metals??
Called the cops. Told them to clean it up.
Oakland: A Great Place to Raise A Family.
Gertrude Stein, on Oakland: “There’s no there there.” What’s inferred may not be what she intended, but the quote continues to ring too true to die.
And the “there” that is there, sucks.
(via brittneyg)
Oakland Catholics set aside an area on church grounds where they could think about how they were raped by priests, back when they were children.
(via strangemaps)
