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  • As Heroin Use by Whites Soars, Parents Urge Gentler Drug War. 

    What a headline.

    When the nation’s long-running war against drugs was defined by the crack epidemic and based in poor, predominantly black urban areas, the public response was defined by zero tolerance and stiff prison sentences. But today’s heroin crisis is different. While heroin use has climbed among all demographic groups, it has skyrocketed among whites; nearly 90 percent of those who tried heroin for the first time in the last decade were white.

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  • We are lifelong Zionists. Here’s why we’ve chosen to boycott Israel. 

    In making the occupation permanent, Israel’s leaders are undermining their state’s viability. Unfortunately, domestic movements to avert that fate have withered. Thanks to an economic boom and the temporary security provided by the West Bank barrier and the Iron Dome missile defense system, much of Israel’s secular Zionist majority feels no need to take the difficult steps required for a durable peace, such as evicting their countrymen from West Bank settlements and acknowledging the moral stain of the suffering Israel has caused to so many Palestinians.

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  • LibraryThing App! 

    I’ve been waiting forever for them to make this application. I am a big fan of LibraryThing, but basically let keeping my library up to date languish. This application is so fast at quickly scanning in your books.

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  • The Computer Show 

    Amazing:

    “Computer Show” is a technology talk show, set in 1983. The dawn of the personal computing revolution. Awkward hair and awkward suits. Primitive synths and crude graphics. VHS tapes. No Internet. But there’s a twist.

    The guests on this show are tech luminaries — experts, founders, thinkers, entrepreneurs…from 2015. They are real, and they are really on “Computer Show” to talk about their thing. Will it go well? Can they break through to the host Gary Fabert (played by Rob Baedeker of the SF-based sketch mainstay Kasper Hauser) and his rotating cast of co-hosts, who know of neither iPhone nor website nor Twitter nor…hardly anything?

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  • Stop Googling. Let’s Talk. 

    This is my life now. Probably most everyone’s life now.

    It’s a powerful insight. Studies of conversation both in the laboratory and in natural settings show that when two people are talking, the mere presence of a phone on a table between them or in the periphery of their vision changes both what they talk about and the degree of connection they feel. People keep the conversation on topics where they won’t mind being interrupted. They don’t feel as invested in each other. Even a silent phone disconnects us.

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  • Pearson airport express trains 90 per cent empty. 

    The dismal numbers are reviving questions about the value of having the train – which cost $456-million to build and now $68-million annually to operate – at a time when Toronto’s regular subway system is overcrowded and a long list of other transit projects remains unbuilt.

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  • On The Fucking of A Dead Pig’s Face. 

    It is difficult to imagine a way in which deciding to bone a pig in its dead face is actually much weirder than being a rich white guy already and then deciding that what you really needed to do was get yourself and your family really stressed out telling 64 million people what to do every day.

    Zak Smith writes about David Cameron, who purportedly put his dick in a pig.

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