When an obnoxious reality star gets a well deserved reality check.
City council bitches!
It would have been perfect if Jerry hadn’t forgotten to vote. Damn it, Jerry!
Delicious people
Gedmintas, Treadway x2 @ Tommy Hilfiger (Fall 2011, Men’s Collection)
The bifurcation of white America
“I also have to say that not enough is made of the meth problem in rural America. I’m always struck by this at public squares in small towns, or in Walmarts. You just see a lot of people whose lives (and faces) have been ravaged by drugs. They’re out begging for quarters or sitting around. You just get the feeling that there is a large amount of social disintegration in the rural parts of America that drugs have fueled and exacerbated. What crack was in cities a few years ago, meth continues to be in other parts of the country today, with much less attention, perhaps because it’s happening too far away from the policy elite.
Charles Murray was mostly right in “Coming Apart” when he wrote about the bifurcation of white America.” - David Brooks, NYT
The distinction between the two epidemics - crack and meth - in America was that crack predominantly affected blacks in ghettos, whereas meth is prevalent among whites in rural regions. I’m not claiming that there is any legitimate reason to devalue one or the other on the basis of race; lives destroyed one way or another is a problem no matter who you are or where you are.
But racial elements have always been influential in public discourse and inherently brought issues regarding social disintegration to the fore. The blacks using crack were no closer to the policy elite than the whites using meth.
We are better to focus on the problem itself - whether it be poverty, drugs, unemployment, etc. - rather than who it affects, because when we only care about who it affects, then it inevitably creates a group of people we don’t give a shit about.
Fuck were you
Jenny Owen Youngs has been a long-time favorite of mine since I heard her song ‘Voice on Tape’ with the equally captivating Regina Spektor (whose new album What We Saw From The Cheap Seats is dropping at the end of the month and is worth checking out).
And still, neither fails to amaze me. Keep it crazy, ladies.
NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY
