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Fearing for His Life
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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An excellent long read on the Police of New York: https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/13/18253848/eric-garner-footage-ramsey-orta-police-brutality-killing-safety
Before you say "Well that's New York..." remember that in Calgary Police have made it a regular practice to execute civilians for holding pen knives or driving impaired. While - on the other hand, if you're a cops son and you stab 5 innocent people to death you get a comfortable diagnosis of Schizophrenia and live out the rest of your days in relative comfort. "Alive" in this instance is relative comfort.
Woman picks matching numbers 30 times to win lottery game
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
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The $150,000 she made is going to be nothing compared to the millions she makes running the "Psychic Friends Network".
Understanding Werner Herzog
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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...Something about his narration, his voice, bothers me. But the content is gold. And a whole list of films to see...
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Every day, I am Robert Di Nero in Brazil, tripped up by paperwork and bills, vanishing, slowly vanishing, every day trusting in an indeterminate future, these things, they reassure me.
Books
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Rejected
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In the end, out of 8 boxes of books (another 24 to go) - 6 are rejected. Of the 2 they took, comprising 4 heaps of thin, more contemporary books, perhaps 70 books all told, $35.00 paid.
But I need to change the way I look at it, revise my thinking, I have the books inside, and it's - while a write off in every economic sense - it's still a lot easier to carry around $35.00 and buy the next book than it is carry around 8 boxes in the possibility I may one day want to reread one.
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