Vermont becomes 4th state with Physician-assisted suicide

  1. Oregon / Oregon Death with Dignity Act (1994)
  2. Washington / Washington Death with Dignity Act (2008)
  3. Montana / Baxter v. Montana (2009)
  4. Vermont / Patient Choice and Control at End of Life Act (2013)

Vermont is the first state to pass this through a legislative process.

Climbing Death at ElCap 19MAY | ElCap Reports

ElCap Report 5/19/13 By Tom Evans   Yo… it started out a beautiful spring day … In all my 18 years of photographing ElCap I have never seen such a grisly, terrible scene

Ray Manzarek Obit

  • 1: Ray Manzarek: Dead.
  • 2: Please let someone make a "the end" joke.
  • 1: He broke on through to the other side.
  • 2: Only St. Peter will light his fire now.
DSM-V unveiled at the APA Annual Mtg this weekend. This is big news! There are some strange changes in it; I’m happy to bore anyone with discussion.
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DSM-V unveiled at the APA Annual Mtg this weekend.

This is big news! There are some strange changes in it; I’m happy to bore anyone with discussion.

Killing in Greenwich Village Looks Like Hate Crime, Police Say

“There was a time in New York City when two people of the same gender could not walk down the street arm-in-arm without fear of violence and harassment … We refuse to go back to that time.

Only one day left!!

The tagline “this is our land” is really on the edge of xenophobia but watching anyway.

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Old School

  • S: Hell Yeah! --> https://www.goldstar.com/e/69979
  • V: GO FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY
  • S: gosh, i would be scared. If it was De La Soul, i would probably go, but when you get the cube crowd involved, it's a whole different party
  • V: yeah, esp at shoreline. place is huge. and getting out of there isn't that easy
  • S: I remember I went to an Ice Cube concert at the Warfield when I was about 21-22 and a guy got stabbed in the neck and immediately after that, a girl fight broke out and a girl got her ear ripped off
  • V: HAHAHA. i'm sorry that's not funny, but it kinda is
  • S: Ice Cube stormed off stage and said he would never come back to the Bay
  • V: Not sure how many more years he has of "putting his back into it."
Clever! From Coverflip, Maureen Johnson for HuffPo. Really good slide show.
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Clever! From Coverflip, Maureen Johnson for HuffPo. Really good slide show.

Save the Coney Island Mermaid from Extinction!

The nation’s largest art parade may have been flooded, but it’s not washed away!

Hey Brooklyn! Save the mermaid parade! 

I was planning on being in NYC that week/end, but it might be a better use of airfare dollars to donate instead. I considerable myself a reasonable merman, after all.

Mermaid Parade wiki. And Official Parade site.