The Cops-as-Pigs Painting Republicans Try to Repress

The painting is evocative with a good use of symbolism and it's accurate to the carnage being wreaked by American cops on the streets at over a thousand kills again last year.  There's no way Paul Ryan would face what they have done so repeated efforts have been made to take the painting down in Washington and they have now been successful.  (CNN:  Controversial painting to be removed from Capitol)

It's another win for the Brain Police.


The curiosity was because I was trying to discover who painted it but the painter was a kid so presumably they're not allowed to present his name but he broke no law so what's the problem.

When a young person does something with this kind of power, it needs to be respected for what it says and the kid encouraged for whatever he or she may yet do.  Instead they suppress it to pretend it didn't happen but the kid knows bloody well it did and there's more of it every day.


Since maybe you don't care about that, how about the story of how Bernie Madoff cornered the market on Swiss Miss hot chocolate from the commissary in prison and was selling it for profit in the prison yard.  (Quartz:  Bernie Madoff manipulated the market for hot cocoa mix at his prison)

“He’s a star in prison. He stole more money than anyone in history, and to other thieves, this makes him a hero,” said Fishman, a journalist who spoke with Madoff extensively for pieces like this one in New York Magazine. He told MarketWatch that Madoff’s fellow yardbirds routinely consult the infamous inmate on stock purchases and other financial advice.

This special status isn’t new. In 2011, his daughter-in-law Stephanie Madoff Mack revealed that she had sent Madoff a bitter letter explaining all the things he was missing out on. He responded, she said, by explaining he was “quite the celebrity,” and that other inmates treated him like a Mafia don, calling him “Uncle Bernie” or “Mr. Madoff.”

“I can’t walk anywhere without someone shouting their greetings and encouragement, to keep my spirit up,” Madoff reportedly wrote to her. “It’s really quite sweet, how concerned everyone is about my well being.”

- Quartz