"The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality." - Margaret Halsey
"You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through quantitative easing and out-and-out federal support? Curious." - When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials aren’t buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)
"The crackdown on prescription opioid medications has, entirely predictably, led to a spike in heroin use...
According to witnesses and an autopsy report, police in Duncanville, Texas, shot an unarmed man, then left him to die without seeking any medical attention. They then put out a press release that elevates to an art form the use of the passive voice to avoid accountability."
"Reich and Steig’s works converged in 1949, when, frustrated that his work wasn’t being taken seriously by mainstream science (also a lil’ frustrated that he wasn’t being hailed as a savior of mankind), Reich penned an amazing and engaging screed denouncing the pettiness and stupidity of humanity, called Listen, Little Man! In it, he lambasted humanity for what he, with plentiful justification, saw as an overwhelming laziness in people, who eagerly favored their herd instincts over their greater potential, collaborating in the self-defeating destruction not just of society, but of the species itself, and so become less victim than harbinger. In the wake of WWII (ethnically a Jew, Reich fled Europe in the ‘30s), he saw little in the defeat of the Nazis to convince him that people weren’t just embracing different reasons to goose-step." 
"...interesting new developments across the country from the world of civil asset forfeiture, the upside-down policy where police and prosecutors can seize and keep your property, often without ever charging you with a crime, and then keep the proceeds for themselves...
Two federal lawsuits have accused the Humboldt County, Nevada, Sheriff’s Department of threatening motorists with criminal charges unless they allowed him to take large amounts of cash he found after pulling them over, and promised not to attempt to challenge the seizures. This comes after another lawsuit by former officers with the Nevada state police alleged that the agency’s drug dogs were trained to make false alerts in order to provide an excuse for property seizures...
In Indiana, prosecutors are attempting to keep $3.4 million seized in raids of Mexican restaurants across the state. No one has been criminally charged. Prosecutors say the money was the result of criminal activity, but they won’t say what that activity was."
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