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  • The Witness | Texas Monthly 

    For more than a decade, it was Michelle Lyons’s job to observe the final moments of death row inmates—but watching 278 executions did not come without a cost.

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  • A great downtown condo, but where does little Johnny go to school? 

    Between 2006 and 2011, her Trinity-Spadina ward has seen a 20-per-cent jump in the number of under-five year-old residents – and since the majority of the ward lives in multiunit buildings, it’s safe to say a whole lot of those kids live in condos.

    I wonder if Toronto and the developers were prepared for people with children living in City Place?

    Here, and in neighbourhoods from High Park to Yonge and Sheppard, condo parents are dismayed to learn that their kids might not automatically get into the high-rated schools in their district, because there just isn’t room. Two new schools are being built to handle the influx from CityPlace and other Fort York condos, but in the interim, there will be a whole lot of busing.

    This is my shocked face! :o

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  • Men Without a Country: Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin, My Father and Me. 

    This Is Not Your Country.

    You can live here. You can make friends. You can try to live by the law and be a decent citizen and even maybe make a lot of money.

    But you will never, ever belong. You will never, ever be one of them. And you must never, ever trust them.

    Arthur Chu—of Jeopardy “fame“—writes about America.

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  • America Is Not For Black People. 

    By all accounts, Brown was One Of The Good Ones. But laying all this out, explaining all the ways in which he didn’t deserve to die like a dog in the street, is in itself disgraceful. Arguing whether Brown was a good kid or not is functionally arguing over whether he specifically deserved to die, a way of acknowledging that some black men ought to be executed.

    I try so hard to not pay attention to what’s going on in the US, because I remember when this site was all just me calling America a mother-fucker, but seriously, “America: you are a mother fucker.”

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