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CROWD NOISE: The Aesthetics of the Riot

What should the aesthetic response to the riot be? Can there be an aesthetic response to the riot that doesn’t undermine its energy? How can the ephemeral nature of the riot be contained without becoming co-opted? Is it possible? Is it even worth the attempt?

The riot, at its core, is pop. It must be populated enough to qualify as “unrest,” or “bedlam,” or “insurrection,” or “uprising.” An individual can protest alone, but—short of self-immolation—it often takes a crowd to shut down freeways, ransack public offices, interlock arms and beat back the batons at the barricades.

In Equipment for Living, poet Michael Robbins writes, “A pop song is a popular song, one that some ideal ‘everybody’ knows or could know. Its form lends itself to communal participation. Or, stronger, it depends upon the possibility of communal participation for its full effect.”

In this way, the Macarena blaring over the loudspeakers at Yankee Stadium, or “Sweet Caroline” blasting at a wedding, or “Living on a Prayer” playing on the jukebox in a Jersey bar harnesses more people power than “Bulls on Parade” ever could. We can’t bother with applying aesthetic judgment to—what many fair-minded listeners would agree—are such loathsome songs. Recontextualized as shared, communal phenomena, they don’t stand to be scrutinized according to any standard metric for “good” or “bad” music. We need to acknowledge the power of the moments these songs engender, not the songs themselves.

There are exceptions. The aforementioned “Bulls on Parade” certainly functioned in the spirit of the riot when it was performed on a stage outside the Democratic National Convention in 2000 and led to mass arrests. The filming of the music video for “Sleep Now in the Fire” forced the New York Stock Exchange to shutdown. The most recent example is the spontaneous cultural force of Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” at demonstrations.

As reported by NPR, Kendrick’s 2015 “Alright” has become, if not a fixture, then an act of faith at rallies and ruptures in the fight for racial justice. It incants when the police are arresting young, Black boys in Cleveland and when protestors gather outside LAPD headquarters. Where This is what democracy looks like! and Whose streets? Our streets! can lose its luster as the masses are kettled, dispersed, and splintered by the State, We gon’ be alright functions as both palliative and rebel yell.

I’ve heard some say pop music is escapism—the same for ambient. It’s a salve for the post-march sore feet, an Adderall for the after-party. For when you realize you have work in the morning and the revolution hasn’t—despite the thrum you felt hours ago—arrived.

I’ve heard people call pop music a distraction, an opium. Pop music as a blissfully ignorant soundscape for shoppers who rely on mall escalators for their scenic overlooks.

But what if pop music is evidence of a world on the brink of true, unutterable, as-yet-unseen solidarity? Pop music as devotional hymns.

You can hear cops barking dispersal orders through megaphones. Sirens are wailing. There’s the low rumble of crowd noise—a din for the dispossessed. Acapellas of pop music rise from this chaos, like a balm over the shrieks and chaos. A bed for bedlam to rest its battered head on.

Could there be any better form than the acapella for the occasion? Save for the militaristic thumps of drum circles, our voices are what carry us through collective action. Shouts, hollers, and hip hip hoorays. A capella—with its origins “in the manner of the chapel”—raises those hectic voices to the level of saintliness. Voices doing the work of gods.

The echoes that have been added, the calm and comfort of reverb, contribute to a sense of containment. Not in the way the cops kettle crowds of protestors. The containment is in how the effects act to interiorize the ecstatic, open-air uprising. Riots are out there. They are rehearsals for the revolution, as they say. By their very nature, they refuse containment. But on Side A of CELL, Issue 5: ACAPELLA - Riot In Versace—a tape release from PTP—the sounds of insurrection are captured, contained, and packaged into a Norelco case, offered up to the masses.

Hearing Busta Rhymes’ abyss-deep voice sing If you give it to me, I’ll give it to you. I know what you want is like a concussed slumber. His voice is the one you hear when you’re coming to. Maybe you took a tear-gas canister to the temple. Riot In Versace is the Maalox running down your face to counter the agent.

Pop music and protest truly makes for strange bedfellows. Nothing seems to work just right. Always contrived, or a cloak of co-optation, or a conspicuously raised consciousness. We soak in the suggestions of Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On only to have Sly Stone raucously respond with There’s A Riot Goin’ On. It’s difficult to take finger-pointing songs serious when—so often—they sell so well. The intent is belied by the result. Songs don’t change the world, but they do earn profitable acclaim.

The slurry of pop vocals sampled on Riot In Versace seems to tease this idea, toy with it sadistically. The first voice we hear that isn’t culled from a field recording of the Ferguson streets is M.I.A.’s. For all her sociopolitical pop (the vocals are from “Borders”) and guerrilla decolonizer imagery, she gave birth to a Lehman brother. The pop/protest conundrum is most apparent in her appearance beside Madonna at the Super Bowl halftime show where she breached her contract by flashing a middle finger whilst lip-syncing—the rebel equivalent of sticking your tongue out at a teacher with her back turned.

The other multi-platinum pop artists who appear on the tape are Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Mariah Carey, and Madonna. All “edited,” according to self-proclaimed “Editor-in-chief” Geng (employing a decidedly non-musical title on this occasion), so as to foreground the People, the masses: “The youth want a better America but the battle will continue if the people remain unheard."

Geng referring to himself as an editor-in-chief of Riot In Versace signals an awareness about the limits of pop music in an insurrectionary context. The tape is more of a text (a codex) than a record.

The nods to textuality remind me of another text. Where Riot In Versace documents and archives the Ferguson uprising, The 2015 Baltimore Uprising: A Teen Epistolary is a zine that captures Baltimore in the wake of the murder of Freddie Gray. It’s a text worth considering through Nicholas Thoburn’s insights, which he shares in an article titled “Twitter, Book, Riot: Post-Digital Publishing against Race.” Thoburn calls the zine an “experimental, small-press book whose content consists entirely of some 650 screen-grabbed tweets….[a] book [that] courses with crisis.”

Thoburn accurately describes the role text-based documents have played in the concatenating struggle for racial justice, but he also identifies the pitfalls and problematics of giving primacy to the written word over that which is uttered:

…consider the role of Abolitionist tracts, the publishing genre of ‘slave narratives’, or anti-colonial works like Franz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth in galvanising struggles against racial violence. This is not to suggest that resistance to racism has taken shape through publishing without complication. In slave narratives, for instance, enslaved people sought to ‘represent themselves as “speaking subjects”’ toward ‘destroy[ing] their status as objects, as commodities, within Western culture’ (Gates 1988, 129). But these narratives succeeded, Ronald Judy (1993, 88, 97) argues, only insofar as they confirmed Western modernity’s principle that ‘writing [is] the sole avenue to humanity’. They hence fashioned ‘Negro’ subjectivity on the interdiction and invalidation of the ‘African’, voided of which the achieved subjectivity was ‘nothing so much as an investment in the terms of philosophical reflection: writing.’

The field recordings on Riot In Versace prioritize the voice, not the transcript. The primacy of the voices rebuffs these Western conceptions of “humanity.” It’s reminiscent of how Alan Lomax pointed a microphone at Lead Belly in Angola and implored, Now sing. Lead Belly was singing even without Lomax there to capture it (re-creating Lead Belly’s captivity in another sense, one beyond prison bars). Lead Belly’s voice was taken captive—like a haint—and [o]pressed as 78 rpm vinyl records, generating wealth that would be distributed unequally. It was no fair deal going down.

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All this being the case, The 2015 Baltimore Uprising: A Teen Epistolary is a curious item, seeing as how it reproduces authentic voices—albeit filtered through the trappings of social media—onto the printed page. Thoburn writes:

Publishing, then, is at once a significant terrain of black resistance to racial violence and one that is fraught and ill-fitting, such that Cornel West writes, ‘the “ur-text” of black culture is neither a word nor a book, not an architectural monument or a legal brief. Instead, it is a guttural cry and a wrenching moan’ (cited in Wilderson 2010, 109).

Thoburn quotes West who is quoted in Wilderson, all of which is now quoted by me. Case in point: we are x times removed from the immediacy of bodies in the streets. Same goes for the evidence of these extempore “Alright” celebrations. Where do I see them? YouTube and Twitter. That is, social media platforms, which are nominally “social.” Re-watching these moments on the internet might be sufficient for a shot of dopamine, but you’ll still be somewhere the rupture is not. You don’t have your ear to the street, so to speak, to hear the guttural cry.

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The tweets that comprise The 2015 Baltimore Uprising: A Teen Epistolary are examples of what we often call screaming into the void, as social media is echo-chamber or hellscape or vacuous pit—take your pick. But when those tweets are aggregated and collated into the pages of a physical book, they gain validity: the cries are heard and documented beyond the living, breathing, ephemeral moment.

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Pop music often appears as a polished, manufactured perfection of sound. It’s frequently auto-tuned, edited, punched-in: overproduced. It’s what gives so much pop music its sheen. Despite all these efforts, it’s a decidedly low art, vulgar even. It stands it stark contrast to the epistolary form. Thoburn meditates on the inclusion of that term in the book title: “But it is a surprise indeed to see it [the term ‘epistolary’] naming a contemporary book on uprising, and, given its elevated cultural associations, to find it attached to the ‘low’, commercial term of the ‘teen.’”

The same high/low register play can be found on Riot In Versace, where its title, too, reflects the dichotomy—“riot” representing the low, street politics; “Versace” representing high luxury and corporatization. Thoburn provides a physical description of how Baltimore Uprising further deconstructs the traditional connotations of “epistolary.” The zine, he writes, “is a pocketsize codex, monochrome throughout, with a tape-covered spine, comprising 272 staple-bound pages, and has non-standard dimensions of 11x14x1cm.” He describes the “flimsy paper covers” and how “the degraded monochrome of its photocopies pages convey a feeling that its coherence as a complete and integrated artefact is barely achieved.”

Therefore, the humble, DIY assembly and production of this material book subverts the “classical, eighteenth-century guise” so often associated with the epistolary form.

This isn’t the works of Samuel Richardson.

The book, most simply, amplifies (or signal boosts) the voices of teen rebels—voices which are typically, historically, muted, ignored, censored, or belittled.

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Furthermore, Riot In Versace is a document, with all the finalization that term connotes. That particular uprising is over, done with. But is that the case? Thoburn invokes Maurice Blanchot’s claim that “political publishing require[s]…media that [can] prolong [the] ‘arrest of history’, that [can] bear and extend its rupture through their material forms.” This tape from PTP is one such material form. It is an example of “ruptural media” whose “critical adequacy to the uprising resides above all in [its] fragmentary, fleeting, and incomplete nature, in [its] ruination of totalizing, encyclopaedic enclosure.” These pop voices appear and dissipate. They mesh and layer over crowd noise and blaring-cum-bleary sonics. They’re peeled from their instrumental foundations, hovering in a no-man’s land of unruly noise.

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Thoburn expresses an appreciation for how the book—like any zine worth the stolen materials it’s constructed from—was originally published free from the authenticating adornments books are known for. There weren’t any credits, and there were no signs of consumerism. No ISBN. No Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data. No bar code.

The absence of interpretative text, editor’s name, and publisher details again plays a role, for Baltimore Uprising in this way blocks the passage readers would otherwise be offered away from the uprising to an anchoring authority or interpretive summation external to its tumult.

In other words, this compilation of tweets from young, Black voices on the ground arrives unfiltered by white institutional power. The same can be said for CELL, Issue 5: ACAPELLA - Riot In Versace—there is little explanation as to the sounds presented, no official production credits, etc. We assume Geng’s credit as “Editor-in-chief” means he’s the human responsible, but there’s a clear attempt to eschew authorship/ownership. (Baltimore Uprising has no official or unofficial author—no names attributed to it at all.) Geng seems to be suggesting he’s merely the arranger of the sounds, unwilling to stake a claim to this autonomous and cacophonous chorus of voices. He’s only functioning in the role of archivist. Much like whoever combed Twitter for the tweets that would comprise the pages of 2015 Baltimore Uprising: A Teen Epistolary.

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The aesthetics of the zine are also a focus for Thoburn. He considers it an “anti-book” (Thoburn is also the author of a book called Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing) full of degraded images of screen-grabs—xeroxed to death, martyred for the purpose of reproduction and illicit redistribution. This decision is anathema to traditional publishing and marketability. The book (or anti-book) seems positively gleeful in its form and posture:

The book’s poor-image tweets have a mocking or menacing effect on the perfect image of Twitter’s clean, unifying, and innocuous interface, that visual scene epitomized by the infantilizing baby-blue dove that is Twitter’s corporate logo. They also trouble the value paradigm of Twitter. The tweets have been appropriated, without permission or license, and, in contrast to the adtech economy of social media, the attention they attract in this book has no payoff for commercial data-capture and audience brokerage.

Thoburn also notes the pop culture references scattered throughout the tweets, one of which reads “Told Yall . . .GTA 6: Baltimore Trenches!,” while another reads “This better than the actual Purge Movie” which, again, speak to a communal participation, a shared understanding, a [raised] collective unconscious. As if to say, We played your video games. We watched your films. We listened to your music. Now witness us exemplify what actually matters to us.

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Which brings me back, once again, to Riot In Versace.

Like the degraded images in Baltimore Uprising, the pop songs on Riot In Versace are degraded, or at least appear so, as they’ve been buried in the mix under field noise and crowd static. Not to mention the songs have likely been lifted from vinyl, tape, CD, or mp3 recordings—it doesn’t matter which, really. The fact is they weren’t reproduced from the masters, the industry standard. It’s safe to say the makers of the tape also didn’t license these songs or contact publishing companies. To paraphrase Thoburn, CELL, Issue 5: ACAPELLA - Riot In Versace is less a tape about the uprising than of it.

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Interior page image from The 2015 Baltimore Uprising: A Teen Epistolary | Protestors gather outside LAPD headquarters (screenshot) | CELL, Issue 5: ACAPELLA - Riot In Versace cassette | M.I.A. performing at the Super Bowl with Madonna (screenshot) | Robert Johnson’s “Last Fair Deal Gone Down” 78 | Exterior images of The 2015 Baltimore Uprising: A Teen Epistolary courtesy of Nicholas Thoburn | CELL, Issue 5: ACAPELLA - Riot In Versace cassette [2] | Interior image of The 2015 Baltimore Uprising: A Teen Epistolary courtesy of Nicholas Thoburn

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newagesispage · 4 years ago

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OCTOBER 2020

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Real Time has been renewed thru 2022.

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Shep Smith is back with Just the Facts on CNBC.

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The other day when Trump took the podium for a rant, an open mike caught a someone saying, “Oh shit” On Fox.

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Letterman is ready with My Next Guest Needs no Introduction. This season includes Robert Downey Jr., Lizzo and Dave Chappelle.

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There is talk of Levar Burton replacing Alex Trebeck when he retires. YES!!!!

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Cigar Afficionado magazine has named CBS Sunday Morning the greatest show on tv.

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The U.S. built tunnels under Trump’s wall to let water, garbage, DDT and other toxins flow thru. Millions were spent for nothing and now millions more will be spent to address this problem that empties into the Pacific Ocean.

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Days alert: Melissa Reeves is being replaced. Is it that she does not want to commute from Nashville or that she is a bit too conservative or something else? Is it an end of Days with old side characters and replacements of the stars??** Ava is coming back, JJ is back, Eric and Sami are gone. ** Absolutely loved the pic of Abigail 1 that confused Abigail 2. Funny!!!! It reminded me of the OLTL moment during Asa’s funeral when Blair saw the 1st Blair in a flashback.

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“Smaller than expected” would probably explain a lot about the proud boys. –Andi Zeisler

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Why does anyone listen to Christie or Rudy??

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Looting isn’t part of protesting just like murder isn’t part of arresting.

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A judge has said that Florida has created an “unconstitutional pay to vote system.” This has now been overturned. What are the things that can be termed felonies to keep one from voting? The list includes releasing helium filled balloons, driving without a license, catching the wrong lobster and disturbing turtle eggs. Amendment 4 was originally put into effect to stop freed slaves from voting. But SB7066 makes sure that felons complete the terms of their sentences. The fines, fees and restitution can be hard to navigate. There must be proof before they can vote but all counties keep their own records and there is no organization statewide. Mike Bloomberg, John Legend, Michael Jordon and others are paying off millions of dollars in debt for felons in Florida so that they can vote if they can unravel some of the puzzles. Now Florida Republicans are saying that that is also illegal.

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The Emmys went on thru the week of the 14th thru the 20th. Winners included RuPaul, Don’t fuck with Cats, Leah Remini, The Apollo, Eddie Murphy, Last Week 2nite, SNL, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Crown, Better Call Saul, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Archer, Hollywood, Maya Rudolph, Dan Harmon, Bad Education, Cherry Jones, Regina King, Julia Garner, Mark Ruffalo, Uzo Aduba, The Last Dance and Stranger Things. Schitt’s Creek (and practically the whole cast), Dave Chappelle and Succession took home the big ones. Norman Lear became the oldest Emmy winner ever. Letterman ‘hitchhiked’ to the Emmy’s to present an award. I was really rooting for Amy Sedaris!!

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Bill Murray and Rashida Jones will star in Sofia Coppala’s On the Rocks.** The Doobie Brothers want Bill Murray to stop using their music to sell his golf clothes.

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Danny Trejo and Jessica Tuck will star in ‘The Shift.’

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Illinois is pulling down statues including Chris Columbus. Woo Hoo!!

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Hysterectomies on immigrant women in detention camps?? Really??

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Scientific American mag is 175 years old has never endorsed a candidate but Joe Biden id their man.

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The Breonna Taylor case continues with a settlement and too few charges.

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Scary Clown 45 announced he will call in to Fox and Friends every Monday or Tuesday but a host told him that they were not committed to that.** The Scary campaign put up ads with “Support Our Troops” but the problem is they are Russian troops and jet fighters.** Trump did a phone interview on Fox Sports and talked about golf.

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It is a shame that Hillary lost the election and many more of us would be alive if she were running the show. But, I can only imagine the shit they would have given her.

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Brad Pascale, Trump’s former campaign manager, went to the hospital after being taken into custody in Florida after threatening suicide.

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Jim Carrey will play Biden on SNL. Chris Rock will be host the season 46 opener on Oct. 3. New players will be Lauren Holt, Punkie Johnson and Andrew Dismukes.

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Amy Coney Barrett has been nominated to the Supreme Court. Her previous statements tell us she believes the ACA is unconstitutional, abortion is always immoral and the country should undo marriage equality. She is a member of People of Praise.** If she was a Muslim and everything else was the same regarding her beliefs and associations, Republicans would call her a religious extremist and never let her step near the Supreme Court. –Wajahat Ali.** Notorious A.C.B. ?? Do they have one original idea other than new ways to cheat and steal??

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Finn Wittrock has a funny little Emmy Uber ride on Funny or Die.

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Go Stevie Wonder!!!

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Dax Sheppard went off the wagon for a while.

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A Giant Gundom? Really?

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A fun prank would be if we stopped this from becoming a dictatorship on Nov. 3rd and whatnot. –George Wallace

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Sen. Kevin Kramer has been acting a little crooked on building the Wall.

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The Metropolitan Opera has cancelled the whole season.

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Happy Doomscrolling

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Can dogs be trained to detect the coronavirus?

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America has no memories. –Wallace Shawn

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Chris Petrovski `will star in ‘Listen’ about a young Israeli soldier.

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Gubler is back and in the video for Future Islands ‘Moonlight’.

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Niecy Nash wed Jessica Betts.

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Check out the Curious life and death of… on the Smithsonian channel.

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Conan is looking hot with his grown out hair.

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I just love Mel Rodriguez and Weijia Jiang. Some people just don’t get enough credit.

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Vet’s crisis line: 1-800-273-8255

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Donald Trump is taking page out of Charles Manson’s playbook. Start a race war, then convince the public you alone can end it. He’s a lying racist piece of garbage. –Rob Reiner

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Serious Question: Would good Christian conservatives have mounted a Go fund me for Timothy McVeigh? –Michael Mckean

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Old Navy will pay employees to work the polls on Election day.

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Trump is the most effective anti -liberal in my lifetime. –Newt Gingrich

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Tommy Chong does not seem too happy with Joe Rogan.

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Anna Faris is leaving CBS’s Mom as it heads into its 8th season.

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Q Anon should take advantage of the ACA. –Joe Biden

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Word is that the White House told Federal agencies to ban race based sensitivity training. The thinking is that Un American propaganda training sessions have no place in Federal Government.

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I wish I lived in a country where John Kelly, James Mattis and John Bolton had at least half the balls of Sally Yates, Maria Yovanovitch, Fiona Hill, Reality Winner, Christine Blasey Ford or Stormy Daniels. – Andrea Junker** If only Mad Dog Mattis had the balls of Olivia Troye – Michael Mckean

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38 million Americans live in poverty.

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80 year old Sam Little with a possible 93 murders has now been called the most prolific serial killer in the U.S. and he has a photographic memory. Whoever takes this on, please let David Alan Grier play him in the movie.

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You must check out the album, the Angel Headed Hipster.

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Everybody is talking about Cottage Core.

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The Trump campaign can’t help themselves with things like playing ‘knockin’ on Heaven’s door’ and ‘Fortunate son’ at rally’s. It was like the time my Grandfathers young wife brought a purse to the funeral that boldly stated ‘Jackpot.’ True Story.

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Glenn Howerton and Seth Meyers should play brothers on something.** Also Meyers and Larry Wilmore wondered if the cancellation of Wilmore’s show was a reason for the racial unrest and terrible results of the last election. Hmmm.

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Can we remember this election enthusiasm for all future elections? We need to take things seriously EVERY time.** So many say that even with our divide, we all want the same things in the end. I do not think that is really true. It seems that in this divide, we have different ideas about what we want this country to be.

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Harry Styles has replaced Shia LaBeouf in Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling.

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Cat Cora has filed for a restraining order against her ex- wife, Jennifer who it seems has been stalking her.

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Showtime’s The Comedy Store sounds interesting with stories like Jimmie Walker who claims that Freddie Prinze wanted to kill John Travolta.

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Maplecroft, Lizzie Borden’s last house sold for about $890,000.

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A woman ref in the NFL?? It’s about time!

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Doc Martin will end after its 10th season.

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Kelly Clarkson is being sued by her management firm.

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Pope Francis refused to meet with Mike Pompeo.

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R.I.P. Tom Seaver, Sophie Farrar, Kevin Dobson, Toots Hibbert, Stevie Lee, Bruce Williamson, Ben Cross, Diana Rigg, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Rev. Robert Graetz, Ron Cobb, Gale Sayers, Dan Dettman, Kevin Burns, Mac Davis, wildfire casualties, Covid victims and Helen Reddy.

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Oct 30, 2019

1. A Hollywood charity event used Keanu Reeves’ name to sell pricey tickets — saying “The Matrix” icon would attend and be honored — but Reeves had never heard of the organization, wasn’t meant to go, and was even shopping at Whole Foods as the gala went on.

Global Charity Initiative, which says it aims to “eradicate poverty on a global scale by empowering people to take charge of their lives, primarily by achieving a shift in mindset,” prominently put Reeves on its invite to an event last Sunday at the Beverly Hilton.

The organization also promoted Reeves’ attendance on social media with his image and the garbled come-on, “Join some Hollywood finest actors like Chadwick Bosman [sic] and Keanu humble and lover humanity supporting GCI to eradicate poverty.” A Facebook post said tickets cost up to $1,000, and an attendee told us that many guests purchased them for a chance to be in a room with the “John Wick” star. The source told us that the gala also auctioned off a painting of Reeves at the event.

But Reeves was not there, and his rep told us, “He knew nothing about the event and has no affiliation with this organization whatsoever. And they used his image without permission.” A Twitter user even said they spotted Reeves at a Whole Foods while the event was going on. We’re told that actress Eugenia Kuzmina — who stars in the upcoming series “Spy City” — was set to give an award to Reeves, but that she left when something “felt off.”

A celeb who was promoted — and did turn up — was “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman. While a source told us that Boseman “left after five minutes,” there are several images of the actor at the event.Boseman also appears in several photos posing with the foundation’s head, Gershom Sikaala, a self-published author who claims he has an “honorary” doctorate from online seminary United Graduate College and Seminary and that he’s a UN Goodwill Ambassador. Reps for Boseman and for the charity did not comment.

2. Cat Marnell is a whole new person. After releasing her popular memoir, “How to Murder Your Life,” the former fashion editor and admitted drug addict moved to Europe and never looked back. Now healthier than ever, Marnell opened up to Page Six about the trials and tribulations of her drug-riddled past and how she managed to get it all together to become “too healthy.”“I’m not entirely sober but listen—all these healthy trendy chicks micro-dosing and smoking weed out in LA are taking more drugs than I am!” Marnell told us via email.

“Adderall might as well have been arsenic—to my mental health, anyway. I haven’t taken a smidgen of Adderall in over two years,” she said of the ADD medication, which she used to abuse. As a result, the writer says she’s healthier than ever. “My health is soo good. TOO good! I’m too focused. Exercise is the most important thing in my life,” she shared, adding that she works out with Beth Cooke at Sky Ting Yoga in New York, and uses KICHGO, a portable fitness kit and video plan designed by Jennifer Lawrence’s trainer, Kit Rich, when she’s traveling. That said, Marnell still does use focus medication, though this time around she’s regulating it.

“I take a different amphetamine now, in a very controlled dose that doesn’t get me high or affect my sleep,” she explained. “I don’t doctor shop or mess around. I don’t touch illegal drugs and I rarely get drunk. You gotta protect your energy and your brain and your spirit like they are precious jewels.

“I have too much dope stuff coming up in my life to mess with that anymore.”

Marnell told us Sony TriStar is planning to turn her memoir into a TV series. She also just released the Audible Original titled “Self-Tanner for the Soul: How I Ran Away to Europe and Found My Inner Glow (When Life Got Dark),”

Although she’s found herself strapped for cash at various times throughout her European journeys, she admitted she’s worked more than she lets on to her fans.

“I’ll tell you a secret: not everything that I do for money has my name on it!” she teased. “Too much pressure. I suck at pressure.”

3. Actor and comedian Kevin Hart on Tuesday shared emotional video footage of his recovery process after he nearly died in a car crash in September. Hart, who reportedly fractured his spine in three places in the crash, shared the footage of his rehab process on his Instagram page.

“When God talks, you got to listen,” Hart says over the footage, which shows him taking steps with a walker as health aides on both sides guide him. “In this case, I honestly feel like God told me to sit down. You know, you’re moving too fast, you’re doing too much sometimes you can’t see the things you’re meant to see.”

In the Sept. 1 crash, Jared Black was driving Hart’s 1970 Plymouth Barracuda in Los Angeles when he accelerated into a turn on Mulholland Highway and lost control of the car, the California Highway Patrol said. The car slid down an embankment and slammed into a tree, authorities said. Hart was a passenger in the car along with Black’s fiancee, Rebecca Broxterman, police said. Hart and Black suffered serious back injuries, while Broxterman had minor injuries.“

After my accident, I see things differently. I see things from a whole new perspective,” Hart says in the video released Tuesday. “My appreciation for life is through the roof. So don’t take today for granted because tomorrow’s not promised.”

4. John Cena said he is donating half a million dollars to the first responders battling the California wildfires. “In times like this, when people are giving their lives and working around the clock, what they need from us is resource,” Cena, 42, said in a video posted on Twitter Monday. “This is the right thing to do and I’m doing my part to help the cause.”

The actor made the $500,000 pledge in honor of his new comedy, “Playing With Fire,” which is centered around a team of firefighters tasked with babysitting three young siblings. He asked Paramount Players, the production company behind his film, to pick a charity that “aids our first responders as soon as possible.”

“California is in dire straits. It is burning,” Cena added. “It is under siege from massive wildfires statewide, which means our first responders are working around the clock and they need our help.” The former WWE star also asked fans to join him in donating, saying, “I’m asking that today on #FirstRespondersDay we do everything we can to help those who risk their lives to protect us all. The California wildfires have reportedly forced more than 200,000 people to flee their homes, and over 2.5 million are without power. California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency Sunday as a result of the Kincade Fire. More than 3,000 firefighters have worked to get it in under control.

5. Kanye West, who released his latest album “Jesus Is King” last week, claims Democrats have “brainwashed” African-Americans — and are making them “abort” their children.

The 42-year-old rapper and fervent supporter of President Trump spoke with radio host Big Boy on Friday as part of his promotion of the long-delayed, gospel-inspired album.“ We’re [black Americans] brainwashed out here, bro. Come on, man. This is a free man talking. Democrats had us voting [for] Democrats with food stamps for years,” Yeezy said when asked about those who think he has turned his back on the black community.

“What are you talking about? Guns in the ’80s, taking the fathers out the home, Plan B, lowering our votes, making us abort our children … Thou shall not kill,” he continued. The hip-hop star appeared to confuse Plan B, the morning-after pill emergency contraception, with abortions that end existing pregnancies.

When pressed about his support for the president, he said: “I’d rather deal with somebody who call me the n-word to my face than a person that signed me for a lifetime deal on a 255-page contract. I’d rather know what I’m dealing with.”

Big Boy asked West whether he has considered that his support for Trump could be viewed as a tacit endorsement of racism. “The most racist thing a person can tell me is that I’m supposed to choose something based on my race,” he responded. “I’m not telling nobody not to vote Democrat,” he said, adding bizarrely: “I love Obama, I love lemonade, I love Wingstop, I love Polos, I love Jordans.”

And when asked if he feared losing his audience, West insisted that he is “only afraid of God.” “I’m only afraid of my daddy, God. I done been 15 years. I’m telling you that God is showing you that you can have your own thoughts, bro. I been canceled before,” he continued.

During the wide-ranging interview, West also revealed that he has no plans to ever perform his old songs live again — though he did say that, “We can play that beat, but I’m going to adjust [the lyrics.]” He added: “They made movies about Steve Jobs so y’all could understand who I am. “Now, when you go to the Apple store, I don’t be seeing no iPod 4 . . . Take you to eBay and get you the old Kanye and get you a vintage iPod 4 while you’re at it, a Sega 8-bit.”

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gearsfics · 6 years ago

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Songsword - camping

Summary: Roy, Steph, Mira and Jason go on a camping trip.

Notes: Whoah, okay this chapter went a little longer than I thought originally, and it's still not done I kinda want to do a little more here but figured should do something else first so... Here's the first half of that week.

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Mira glanced to see what had caught Steph’s attention. “Oh wow.” She grinned brightly. The two had stopped in front of a mechanical bull and both grinned a moment. “You know teasing a girl who spent most of her life before Gotham, bouncing between the big city and an actual ranch, with one of these is just mean right?”

Steph was smiling brightly as she picked up a cowboy hat from a rack, placing it on Mira’s head. “No, wrong color makes you look like a ghost.” She took it off and replaced it with a brown one.

“Gah! Come on, you’re going to mess up my hair.” Mira chuckled knowing it was useless the younger girl was the kind that wouldn’t stop until it was perfect, and didn’t help that her hair was already a mess thanks to having the top down.

Summer

"You know, it will be great without you around for a week.” Anna, Mira’s father’s lawyer of a girlfriend, said watching as Mira moved around the apartment gathering up the things she had spread out to pack neatly away in her bag.

“Oh, so you and Dad can be as loud as you want in the bedroom? Oh wait, that’s right you two usually don’t make it to the bedroom, will be great being able to walk to a kitchen without having to tiptoe around.” She angrily stuffed the bag she was packing that was full of the rest of the books she needed to finish dealing with before school started back up the next week. She hadn’t been able to get any studying done at home, thanks to three months of working at her aunt’s, and any free time being spent avoiding going home because she and Anna couldn’t stand each other.

Part of that was because Mira wouldn’t blindly follow Anna’s orders. She may have had her father wrapped around her fingers, but Mira had spent a little too much time with Ivy to learn some tricks, and she wasn’t blind. She knew something was up, but couldn’t place her finger on it yet. So, until she could figure it out, she pushed buttons against the whirlwind romance her father was in. It wasn’t like she wanted him alone, she knew that he deserved to be happy, but she didn’t want him to be with anyone that wouldn’t accept that he had responsibilities, even if she was going to be in college in a year.

To Anna anyone under eighteen in Gotham were a waste of space, even if they were supporting themself, which Mira had been doing the last three months. She had worked hard to earn her position at her aunt’s cafe, demanding that June treat her like everyone else. Though she did love Hank, and was trying at least.

Mira knew how sweet and innocent Anna acted when her Dad was around. It was almost impossible to get him alone, unless she went to the station lately, and his caseload was so large, she didn’t want to make domestic issues on top of it. So the few times she went a week, it was usually to bring him and his partner lunches that she hand packed herself. It was a way to get out of the cafe for a little bit to get some fresh air at least.

Anna finding out that Mira was dating someone with priors, even though he was the adopted son of Bruce Wayne, didn’t help. Mira hadn’t been able to let Jason into the apartment since she had moved in at the start of summer. So a week of freedom was something that Mira was looking forward to. If only so they could get some time together, even though there would be others with them.

She left her bag on her bed, going to her bathroom looking for the small pouch she usually used for her medicines. “Anna, have you been in here? I can’t find my meds, I set them on the counter so I wouldn’t forget them.”

“Threw them out.” Anna was glaring at her. “And I don’t believe that you need that bottle. You haven’t shown symptoms of either ADHD or any Diabetic symptoms.” She crossed her arms. It took everything Mira had in her to not hit the woman that was trying her patience. The adderall she took, she could get away for a few days with mountain dew at least. Would take the doctor that long to be able to legally replace her prescriptions. With luck, she might be able to get another bottle of insulin at least, though it would cut into the funds she had saved for the week.

“Moron! Dad knows I use needles. I take insulin.” She shoved her out of the way, going to her nightstand drawer. The small basket that usually held honey sticks, was empty as well. Seemed that Anna had been busy while she had been at work earlier. There were some in her purse at least, they could hold her over at least until she was ready to go. She’d just have to ask to stop on the way to get the rest of the things she’d need. “And don’t think you can con Dad into thinking I was careless.” She slammed the drawer shut shooting another glare. “He’ll hear about it too.”

The knock at the door had her glance at the clock. It was five, Jason… She stuffed the rest of her gear in her bags quickly.

“Come in Jay!” She called ignoring the glare from Anna. Mira was done arguing with her, a week without her at least, would be heavenly, she worried about the aftermath, but at least she knew if things got too bad, her aunt would take her in, hell, even Alfred had suggested she start leaving things at the manor since she spent so much time there already. Starting for the door, she snatching up her guitar case as she went, remembering Roy and Jason both had asked her to bring it for campfires on the beach. Music would calm her, right now, it was just another thing she was looking forward to. If Anna had her way, Lucifer’s strings would have been snipped the first week she invaded.

“Hey Mir, Mrs Boer.” Jason was at least polite with the older woman. “Oh, Mira, you look like you packed way too much.” Jason grabbed the heavier bag from her before she could stumble. He took note that she had her backpack over her shoulder as well, probably further behind than he was since she had gotten a summer job to escape her house longer.

“Yeah, well, Steph told me to make sure to have some things for heading into town. Wasn’t sure what she meant.” She gave a weak smile. “So, have a feeling some of the outfits will stay packed away.”

“You’re going with Brown as well?”

Oops, Mira had mentioned two friends, Steph had begged to go at the last moment, when Roy’s friend, a woman that Mira hadn’t met yet, had backed out at the last moment. Some issue at work if Mira understood what she had been told.

Mira shot Jason a look to keep quiet about the fourth member of the group. With his past, Anna would surely call her father and want her to stay there, ruin the last bit of a hellish summer she had left. Hell, Mira didn’t know the whole story, she knew enough, and knew he was trying to get better, moving near Gotham to get away from the situation he had back at home. Something she could actually relate to.

Both teens rolled their eyes. “Would you rather Dick and Bab’s take us? Besides, the three of us are probably spending most of the week studying. How much trouble can bookworms get into.” Jason suggested getting a horrified look from Anna. It was actually amusing, Anna was the only person he had met so far that didn’t care for his adopted brother. Instead of going on with that track he decided to give her the information that Alfred had reminded him to give. “Hank should be able to reach us on our cells, if not, Alfred has the landline, he asked that I remind you of that.” Jason smiled faintly, though the look on Mira’s face told him that she was as tired as he was most nights. And she didn’t have to deal with the worst of Gotham. “We should get going, I left her with the car. Would rather get back before she changes the station to some pop station.”

Mira giggled at that, shouldering the strap of her guitar case. “Oh, can’t stand us singing along with boy bands again?” She grinned brightly pulling the door shut behind her, slamming it as loudly as she could for self-gratification. As the two made their way down the elevator she sighed. “I swear she wants me to start shit. She threw out my insulin and needles, adderall too. We’ll have to stop so I can get some, I need sunblock anyway.” She leaned against the wall of the elevator closing her eyes a moment.

Jason slipped an arm around her. “You know, Alfred wouldn’t mind if you moved in.” He nodded though. “We’ll stop. And I made sure to pack extra white out and code red for the trip out there. Though really that stuff tastes gross.”

She chuckled at that. “Would make sneaking in easier. Though pretty sure I’m horrible at it.” She leaned against him. “This coming from the guy who slams redbulls with pop rocks chasers.”

“It’s good!” Though he only did it on a dare from her to start. Though, he also may have gotten Steph hooked on them too, much to the dismay of their homeroom teacher.

As for moving in, Alfred usually didn’t mind it if she came over, at least the visits she had made had been when Jason and Bruce were home. And she usually made sure to not make a mess when she snuck out in the morning, despite the fact that they would have given her a ride home. “Just think, one more year and you’ll be in college.”

“Yeah, still not sure if I want to leave town. Hell, I think Mr. Fox is still upset I turned him down this summer for the internship at Wayne Enterprises.” She grinned. “He asked two days after Aunt June offered me a summer job. Seriously she’s basically let me control the front of house.” It had taken her two months to earn that position, which had taken away from time she needed to study, but wasn’t like she couldn’t just make up some of it with the week, and books on tape. Most of the reports wouldn’t be due until the end of the first week.

“And now I feel bad that most of my summer has been shadowing Bruce around to business meetings. I don’t think I’d be able to handle working in an office.”

“I’m still mad I haven’t been able to see you in a business suit. Bet you look handsome in it. I mean you look good in a suit anyway, but you never wear a tie at the galas.” Stepping out of the elevator they walked to the front of the building. The car they were taking was a convertible, the top already down. Steph was in the back seat and to Jason’s relief pop music wasn’t blasting.

“You’re one to talk, I never get to see you in heels, those platform sandals you love don’t count.” He countered teasingly.

“They so do! Besides you want to watch me fall on my face? I don’t even wear ballet slippers for fencing because these feet are both the right foot.” She huffed a little looking at the said shoes he had mocked, which she happened to be wearing. They were a pair of her favorites, cork wedges with an inch platform that looked amazing with the frayed jean cutoffs and cropped tank top she wore under a boho styled long vest that were actually longer than her shorts. Her shoulder length hair sported a few braids that had bright ribbon woven in, used to tie the braids together behind her neck. The outfit was completed with feather earrings and a leather choker sporting a small black stone carved into a bird shape, Something Jason had bought her at the fair when they had gone with Bruce to Smallville a few weekends ago. The day trip had been fun, and it had been her first time in a helicopter.

Jason smiled, he enjoyed her fashion sense, and the two loved pointing out how they didn’t really fit in high society, hell, he still wore sneakers to galas, because it amused Mira, and annoyed the snobby fashion police. Bruce let him, because he really couldn’t tell Jason no. Even if Alfred gave a disappointing look. The choker though, had him smile, it was a subtle hint of who he was, without telling her, and had been a perfect end to a fun day. Bruce had met with Clark, letting the kids do their own thing. Just getting her out and laughing had been worth it alone. And it had kept him from being grumpy around Superman.

“Oldies, sweet, already like your friend Roy.” Mira bumped his shoulder as she lifted her hand to greet Roy and Steph, who were waiting at the curb. The song from the stereo was a little darker than she would have liked, but it was one that she enjoyed because even though it was sad, it was beautiful, something that she hoped she could pull off with her own music.

To her, the only way to pull it off, was to learn from the masters. Which was something she followed when she was playing with technology as well, or even creating magic in the kitchen. Both Alfred and her aunt had taught her so much starting from the basics on up, and she hoped that the ingredients she had asked Alfred to stock were at the cabin. After the argument, she could use the zen she usually felt while cooking.

The song came and went Like the times that we spent Hiding out from the rain Under the carnival tent

-- Mandolin Rain - Bruce Hornsby and the Range

“Oh look at this!” Mira yelped as Steph pulled her arm going off in a different direction than the guys. They had stopped at Alfred’s ‘secret place’ for the honey sticks he had gotten Mira addicted to. Though he had been right in suggesting them, it helped in a pinch if she couldn’t get to her insulin, the pharmacy hadn’t been able to give her a new bottle so she was going to hope that she could handle keeping her levels good. They said they’d send it over to the branch near where they were camping though, she’d be able to pick it up in a day.

Steph was smiling brightly as she picked up a cowboy hat from a rack, placing it on Mira’s head. “No, wrong color makes you look like a ghost.” She took it off and replaced it with a brown one.

“This so doesn’t seem like a place Alfred would come to a lot.” Steph looked over at her, goofing around ending for a moment.

“Pretty sure it’s the closest place that has these.” She held up the small baggie of sticks she had bought. “He found out that I would get them back home and seriously Dad said he felt like he was in an interrogation room when he was asked about what brand I liked.” She giggled. “Almost wish I would have been there to see it. I’ve never seen Dad thrown off his game.”

“He suggested we might enjoy it.” Steph was giggling as the boys caught up. “Also suggested which car we borrowed. He was right, there’s a lot of trunk space. Though I prefer my bike.”

“I wish I had more time this summer to ride.” Mira sighed softly.

“Okay, as much as it’s cliche, I think that fits you.” Roy smirked at Mira, who had forgotten she was wearing the hat still. “Shouldn’t you be wearing boots instead?”

“Helps I know how to wear one with just about anything.” She grinned back. “Though, it would be showin’ off with that wouldn’ it?” She purposely thickened her Texan drawl, which she noted had Jason gulp a little. She made a mental note to remember that for later. She smirked. “Oh I have the boots, but I’m far too pale to make that look good.”

Roy looked to where she jerked her thumb and laughed. “No way, last time I was on one of those was a club Dick and I went to back in Star.” He chuckled. “And have a feeling you’re going to be complaining about burning later. Look a little pink already.”

“Oh, one of those stories my brother would kill you if you told?” Jason slipped his arms around Mira. “You’re still cute, and we have aloe.”

"More like Ollie and Bruce would.” Roy grinned brighter. “Remind me to tell it when we’re at the cabin. Lasted two seconds last time.”

“Seven, on a live bull. Gave Dad a heart attack too,” Mira walked over to the man standing next to the machine. “Steph ya wanna go?”

“Hell no, I’m a city girl and know it. You and the boys have fun.” She held up her phone. “I’ll post it to youtube. Last stupid thing Jay did went viral. And I’m loving the comments.”

“Yeah, Bruce still won’t let me live that one down.” Jason frowned slightly, almost wishing he could smash the phone. He briefly wondered how much blackmail material she actually had on that thing, though knew none of it would really get him into trouble with Bruce. Last thing he wanted was to be benched because of a youtube video.

Mira was silent a moment. “Oh, right, the thing at the pool party.” She shook her head, it was an event she hadn’t gone to, sometimes her fencing obligations got in the way. Many times this summer, it had been when the others had gone to the beach, or hung out by the pool at the manor. Though Mira didn’t like going into the water, she enjoyed spending the time near it, especially on hot summer days, usually nursing a cold cream soda.

“So who goes first?” Roy asked with a grin.

“Go for it, I wouldn’t want to set the bar too high man.” Jason chuckled at Roy as he went up to the bull. The attendant helped him as Mira pulled out her phone turning on her stopwatch.

“Then by all means Jay, you’re after him and we’ll see if I can beat both of you.” Mira countered.

Steph kept the camera going. “Make it good guys, has to be longer than a vine.”

I laughed and she'd smile It would last for awhile You don't know what you got Til you lose it all again

Jason glanced over at Mira, who was curled up against him in the backseat, his jacket over her shoulders, the two gave each other a brief smile as she shifted slightly so she could reach for her water bottle which had fallen to the floorboard. Roy stretched a moment as he pulled the car into the parking area in front of the cabin. The lights were on, and it looked warm and inviting. Alfred had made the arrangements for them, four bedrooms, three baths. The place was bigger than most homes that the kids saw in their respective towns, since Roy was the only one who didn’t reside in Gotham proper.

“I have to thank Alfred, seriously, this is huge.” Roy whistled low.

Steph was already out of the car, bouncing to the back for her bag. “I know we were going to study, but you know how hard that’s going to be with all this quiet.”

Mira frowned a little. “Right, was quiet before you two started up.” She stuck her tongue out at them. “Alfred said there was a horse farm nearby too… Wonder if one day we could rent some horses.” She reluctantly moved from her comfortable position, slipping Jay’s jacket on properly before climbing out of the car.

“You know we’re more used to bikes right?” Jason asked knowing that she had mentioned horseback riding a few times. She had a bike though, June had bought it for her, and the two had gone out a few times racing each other around the Wayne property. But it was clear she was missing the ranch. Jason had already asked about the horses, it would be something just the two of them did, a few hours in the evening. He just hadn’t told her that yet.

Mira smiled as she got up, brushing her hair out of her face. “Sore I beat you an’ Roy on that bull?” She kissed his lips. “I’ll just have to massage the soreness out.” Both boys had only lasted three seconds each on it. Mira had managed seven seconds before she had fallen off, and had spent another twenty lying on the mat laughing about it. Still not long enough for a proper video according to Steph, but it had been fun.

“Man, now makes me wish Star had been able to come along.” Roy sighed, as both of them flipped him off. “Promise?”

That got a groan from the two and his bag getting thrown at him. Roy grunted catching it. “Alright I get it I’m the third wheel here.”

Exploring the house had Mira taking the room with a view of the forest behind the house, Steph and Roy taking the two with the view of the lake, and Jason taking the room that was in the front of the house. The living room had a large TV, though no cable, just the local stations. And the kitchen was fully stocked with a note from Alfred telling them that they weren’t to drive into town for junk food everyday.

Mira had found the note on the fridge telling them the planned meals Alfred had left for them, though it was clear the meals had enough wiggle room to switch things around for the week. And the dish she wanted to make was one of the planned ones.

“This is going to be great,” She heard Roy as he padded down the steps. She snagged two of the cold drinks from the fridge and padded barefooted across the floor.

“No wanna be parents ordering you around too?” She asked popping the caps off the bottles. She doubted Jason would have asked him to come along if he didn’t trust him. And he wasn’t giving off vibes that would make her cautious. Though she did look him over, shirtless she could see he wore a lot of scars, some faded bruises. At least one scar she saw looked like it was about the same shape as a gunshot wound that her father had. The older boy had seen some action, though she wasn’t going to ask and was careful not to stare too long.

Roy chuckled. “Yeah, that too.” He glanced over as she held out the bottle to him. “Thanks,” He watched her as she tipped back her own, watching the fireflies out the window. He studied her carefully, having noted she had done the same. She was still pale, a faint hint of sunburn on her skin, but he doubted that she could really tan. The dark circles around her eyes told him she probably didn’t sleep much, or hadn’t slept well in a while. The comment had him thinking that it had to do with her home life.

“Right, sorry.” She glanced at him. “Guess that’s where you and Jay met.” She noted his faded bruises since he was just in jeans, the towel he had used to dry his hair over his shoulders.

“Huh?” The comment threw him a moment. Had Jason told her about being Robin? And the Titans? He would have told them if that was the case right?

“Rich boy fight club,” she responded, tucking pale hair from her eyes. The response wasn’t what he had expected.

Roy laughed at that, a genuine laugh. He had wondered why Jay liked having her in the dark about what they did, and the comment, basically told him that some aspects hadn’t been hidden completely. He had a feeling Dick would die laughing hearing the team described as that though.

“What?” She genuinely looked confused a moment.

“I just didn’t realise he told you about that.” He chuckled, he’d let her stay in the dark about the truth of it. If only because the way she worded it, was far too cute to ruin, and he liked Dick’s adopted brother. Last thing he wanted was the kid pissed at him.

“He hasn’t told me much, just the basics. And the rest of what I know about you are from the papers, which don’t really paint a pretty picture. Though Mr. Queen looks evil honestly. Wonder how much he pays to spin good press.” She got another chuckle from Roy. “I mean really who can look that happy in photos. Even Bruce shows a bad side.”

“Let Dick tell you more about Bruce, pretty sure he spends more money on paying off the paparazzi.” Roy turned to the window. “And Oliver has his issues, he just hides them.” Though not as well.

“More so to keep pictures of us together out of the paper.” Jason said from above. She glanced up at the loft where he was leaning over the rail. Roy was glad he had spoken up.

“Most of the papers in Gotham know better than print the picture of a cop’s kid. Gordon’s a scary man if crossed. And I only know from watching him rip into someone at the station.” She smiled. “Though all I caught was it was something about Barbara.”

“You never want to be on the other side of that wall Mira.” Roy responded. He had gotten enough of those lectures in costume with Dick to know that he never wanted the man to know who he was out of it.

“Steph still in the shower?”

“Yeah, I think I heard her singing Backstreet boys.”

Mira cringed at that. While she wasn’t one to knock musicians, she preferred a good guitar riff. “Remind me to put a different playlist in her spotify. Something with a little less bubblegum.”

“Hard rock?” Jay asked.

She shook her head. “I’m on a folk kick lately. Wonder how she’d do with Springsteen and Joplin.”

“Old school, Jaybird, really more your girl keeps talking more I’m falling in love with her.” Roy flashed a grin to let Mira know he was kidding.

“You haven’t heard her sing yet. Trust me, she’s a siren.”

Mira blushed at that. “Geek, I am not.” She retorted, before taking another sip of her soda, turning back to watching the fireflies. “And that’s something that I miss, you don’t see them in the city that often, only when I visit June or you.”

“Let us be the judge of that Mir.” He shot back. “We gonna do a bonfire tonight?” He was crossing the room to them. “And what the fireflies? Thought you didn’t care for bugs.” He slipped his arm around her when she leaned back into him.

“Maybe, if everyone’s not too tired. I know I’m starting to get there though.” Roy admitted stretching a little. “Though could just chill tonight, and have fun tomorrow, not like we don’t have a week out here.”

“I could have taken over if you wanted.” Jason felt bad about him driving the whole way, even though they had stopped a few times to get out of the car.

“And wake sleeping beauties? As much as I wouldn’t have minded being a pillow, neither are the one I’d rather sleep with.”

“Too bad that red-head’s smitten with Dickie then?” Jason commented slyly, grunting ever so slightly when Mira elbowed him. “Ow so mean,” He whispered to her as she snuggled against him.

“Ow, have to remind me.” Roy mimicked getting hit in the chest, falling against the glass door.

Listen to the mandolin rain Listen to the music on the lake Oh, listen to my heart break Every time she runs away

Jason glanced over to the shore, it was still early morning, Roy and Steph were still asleep, though Mira had joined him outside. Or at least she was on the shore, leaning on a large log bench, the lantern that had been on the deck, sitting up on the bench, while her guitar was in her lap, and a notebook on the sand by her.

He had heard the guitar while he had stopped swimming out on the lake, about a hundred feet from shore, and had noticed the light. Being closer he treaded water just enjoying it, not wanting to ruin it just yet.

“Oh, listen to the banjo wind A sad song drifting low Listen to the tears roll Down my face as she turns to go” Her words were soft, the song haunting in the early pre-dawn light. Jason thought back on the conversation that they had the night before, he, Roy and Mira had been up late. Steph having gone to bed after about four rounds of rummy.

It didn’t take him long to make it back to the shore. Though, she had finished her song, and started in on another one, this one at least a little more upbeat. Every few moments she’d stop and jot down something.

“Sleep well?” He didn’t mean to make her jump, though how she clutched the guitar close was kind of cute.

She bit her lip startled as he walked up to her. There was a small nod.

“Though Roy’s snoring woke me. Serves me right for falling asleep on the couch.”

Jason chuckled as he sank to the bench, reaching for his towel. “Sorry I didn’t have the heart to move you.” He ran the towel through his hair. “Whatcha workin’ on?”

“Something that’s not ready yet.” She closed her book before he could reach for it. “Sorry, you know how I am.”

“No peeking at your art until it’s ready. This the new notebook you got? That fancy one?”

She nodded. “Have my planner in it too for the school year. Hopefully it keeps me more organized.” She picked up the faux leather binder, which had a few charms hanging from it, musical notes and a fencing sword, just like the charms that hung off her cellphone. The binder was a soft purple, in the pale light it almost looked grey.

“Aw, this means no more last minute cram sessions with Alfred’s cooking?” He smiled down at her, fighting the urge to ruffle her hair.

“You know that won’t change. I need some way to escape my dad now and then.”

“More like escape Anna.”

She nodded. “Yeah, she is the whole Evil step-monster trope in real life.” She accepted her journal back and set it on her lap. “One more year, Though have to decide if I’m taking up the offer to go to CalTech, staying in Gotham, or Julliard.”

“I wouldn’t mind you staying. I mean yeah, not a high end school, and I know you’ve gotten offers already from both, but would be less time alone.” He moved so that he could give her a small hug. “That is if you’re not sick of me already.”

She shook her head returning the hug. “You’ve been a constant that I’ve needed. I’m just worried you’ll get bored of me.”

Jason pet her hair lightly. “You’re one of the good things in my life. One of the few. If I ever leave you it will be to protect you.”

“I don’t want you getting hurt. And I can protect myself you know.”

Jason smiled. “I know, my little swordswoman.”

A cool evening dance Listening to the bluegrass band takes the chill From the air Til they play the last song

“Mira, come on the water’s fine.” Roy called from where he and Steph were sitting on a pontoon about sixty feet out in the water, anchored to the lake bottom.

Mira looked at the water, something in the back of her mind screamed at her to run, to get back from the shore. It took all she had to look at the blanket, using the time to shut up the screaming in her head. She didn’t even know where the thoughts came from. Shaking her head she kicked her feet up, stretched out on her stomach. “I don’t swim. Not a lot of places to learn back home an’ all that.” She smiled. “Besides, too many lyrics up here, curse of the creative mind an’ all this fresh air.”

There was a squeal from Stephanie, who was pulled into the water by Jason. Roy turned to deal with the two.

All three missed Mira going pale seeing Steph go under the water, even though she knew that the girl would be okay, it was a game the three of them had been playing all afternoon, something about how she had disappeared had Mira remember a dark room filled with water.

Mira caught it, the voice in her mind, a small girl, screaming not to be shoved under the water again, and screaming for her mother. She closed her eyes, hiding a moment by hiding her face against the blanket, trying to will the thoughts away.

She was the outsider here, the three were cryptic about where they met, and here she was, being asked to join them, and fighting voices in her head.

“Hey watch it Steph,” Roy warned helping her up when she coughed from too much water in her lungs.

“Would have been fine if you didn’t try to hold me under you jerk.” She flailed at Jason.

Jason looked to the youngest of the group, the few years he had known her, he had done his best to keep her from trouble, even as Robin. He had known that Steph wouldn’t really hurt him, she was trying to be good, despite her father. Hell, the only reason she had agreed to come along was because it would get her out of Gotham for a bit.

Clinging to the pontoon a moment he glanced over to the shore. “Shit, where’d Mir go?”

“She was there a moment ago, think she actually dove in?” Roy glanced at the pair, the looks they gave told him that they doubted it.

“Mira tends to freak out if we have to do anything at the pool in gym class.” Steph admitted. “She can swim, but the girl goes white as paper on the pool deck. Seeing her actually on the shore was amazing enough.”

“Maybe she went for a drink.” Jason said calmly. He remembered nightmares she had while curled up next to him on stormy nights in his room at Bruce’s. Bruce and Alfred hadn’t separated them, figuring the kids wouldn’t do anything stupid. “I’m going to go check on her.”

“Worried?”

“He always worries about her. If she ever figures out he’s ya know… Doubt she’d sleep ever again, insisting staying up until he called her to tell her he was safe at home.” Steph sank back to the edge of the floating island. “We give them about ten minutes before heading back?”

Roy nodded. “Still pretty sure we shouldn’t trust you.”

She leaned back looking up at him. “Why, because of who my dad is? Please, I’m not the only one with that kind of past. Besides, Mir’s a friend. And I like the idea of having someone I have to hide a secret that big from. Though ‘rich boy fight club��? I should be offended. Not all of us are rich kids, or boys.”

“You heard that?”

“Jay did, he told me this morning when we went for a walk. Was while you and Mira were making breakfast.” She kicked her feet a little. “Also told me the real reason we have her out here. Seems Greason’s really worried, I mean to ask Batman about it and Jay suggesting this. Wonder who the hell he pissed off.”

“Other than Bats and Arrow? Not sure. Have a feeling he’s not as straight as he acts. Though he seems to play the role well with her.”

“Or she’s figured things out and plays the fool for everyone. I mean really, she hasn’t figured it out yet, and she’s seen him as Robin, just hours before him as Jay.”

“If that’s the case, she’s a better actor than most of Hollywood.”

I'll do my time Keeping you off my mind but there's moments That I find I'm not feeling so strong

Jay found Mira leaning against a large tree, facing it, breathing heavily. She was trembling and when she slid down, he saw her hands were clenched in fists. “Mir?” He moved to her, gently putting his hand on her shoulder. “Mira, what’s wrong?”

“Need a shot, forgot it this morning.” She whispered. “Jay, hurts, everything’s too bright.”

Jason pulled her closer, glad she didn’t pull back since he was still wet from the lake. “Can you walk?”

She gave a weak nod. “I’m sorry, I should have…”

“It’s okay, come on, I’ll give you the shot, but you have to stay with me.”

Listen to the mandolin rain Listen to the music on the lake Aw, listen to my heart break Every time she runs away

"Okay, any more book work I’m going to go nuts.” Steph flopped back on the floor looking up at the ceiling.

Her comment actually woke the others, who had been scattered around the living room, various books open. The storm that had kept them inside most of the day was still raging.

“Ugh, okay, I think we all need a break.” Jason admitted falling back against the couch where Mira was dozing, the German textbook across her chest.

“Remind me again why I took German Jason.” The sleepily mumbled words, in German, came from Mira as she turned to her side. Jason chuckled at that.

“Thought it was so we could spend more time together.”

She sighed.

“Should I worry when you two talk cute like that?” Roy asked as he tossed the book he had been scribbling ideas in to the side. “And lemme guess need more coffee?”

“I’ll make some.” Mira sat up flipping Roy off as she did. “And I didn’t say anything cute.”

Steph was giggling. “Actually your accent when speaking German’s kind of cute Mira.”

She sighed, “Don’t get too used to it. Apparently I can only keep it while speaking German, and some reason… leaves a dirty taste in my mouth.” She shook her head a moment.

“Oh, sorry.” Steph frowned.

“Don’t be, get a worse feel with French, which is why I dropped it after two days.” She headed for the kitchen. “Anyone want snacks too?”

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I knew of the accusation before I ever stepped foot inside the house. Still, I doubted it without question. It was one girl against a house full of boys; of course I believed the boys.

Theirs was my favorite frat despite the strict no-party rule, or perhaps because of that. I’ve always had a fraught relationship with house parties, one that follows me to this day. As a straight-laced high school student with acute anxiety, parties were a minefield of missed social cues and danger at every turn. I can count on one hand the number of parties I attended back then, and they were all agonizing parades of panicked loneliness. It wasn’t until college that I learned to numb my neuroses with cheap liquor, turning the volume down on my inhibitions so I could learn to enjoy myself for once. They were the ones who taught me how.

Maybe she was more like me than I realized. Maybe she was exactly like me. I never even met her, so how would I know?

My college was something like 80% Greek, not uncommon considering it was a small town devoid of any other forms of entertainment aside from themed parties soaked in Natty Light. It wasn’t a matter of whether or not you belonged to a house, it was which house suited you best. There were the stereotypical houses, filled with perfect rich kids whose parents either didn’t know how much Adderall it took for their progeny to pass their classes, or they just didn't care. There were the “loser” houses, filled with boys with no game and girls that no one wanted to take home at the end of the night. This one was somewhere in the middle.

I started going there relatively early on my freshman year, because it was the closest to my dorm and my roommate had made a few friends there. The first night, I met the president of the frat and was immediately smitten by his warmth and effortless cool. I remember setting my new pea coat down on his bed and watching later as he chased down a girl who tried to steal it. When I got my radio show shortly thereafter, in the not exactly prime midnight to 3am slot, it felt kismet because the frat was two doors away. I’d stumble over to the booth with seconds to spare, head still buzzing with Jaeger bombs and shitty vodka, and the boys would filter in throughout bearing gifts and jokes and company. If I missed a party, I’d invariably hear from President Cool and his friends, leaving funny messages on my answering machine and pleading with me to show my face. When I left school at the end of the year, fed up with my directionless life in the midwest and itching to return to California, President Cool was the one who helped me move my couch to the curb. I’d never felt more like I belonged.

I was pretty then, but not confident enough to realize it, so I was glad when the brothers took me under their wing. They would check on me throughout the night, make sure I was comfortable and intervene if I looked like I needed it. They gave me my first drinks and didn’t laugh when I coughed from the burn. When Rush Week came and I didn’t get into the sorority next door, they offered to rush me as their first “sister” and build me my own wing on the ground floor. They really did feel like brothers to me--cool, handsome brothers who named drinks after me and made sure I had a warm coat and someone to walk me home at the end of the night.

I never gave much thought to the social probation. Technically, they were banned from partying altogether, which I soon found out stemmed from the discovery of a secret room in the basement filled with racist and anti-semitic graffiti. A part of me deep down was disgusted when I saw it for myself, that dank chamber that seemed to house the ghosts of so many untold horrors, but I trusted my brothers when they told me they had been caught unaware, that this stuff had been here long before them. I didn’t give it a second thought because it was them, and they had given me no reason not to trust them.

So when I heard again about the accusation, I gave it even less thought. “I know about her, she’s such a slut” was the common refrain, as if the whole school knew more about this one random girl than any subject they might be studying. I never even knew her name, but I took it for granted that she slept around. It was the only explanation that didn’t challenge my precious beliefs, so it was the only one I needed. When she came forward, insisting that she had been assaulted by multiple brothers of my beloved frat at the start of the semester, I dismissed it out of hand. Clearly she was lying. Clearly she had a score to settle. The narrative I painted for myself was simple: she must have slept with someone who rejected her the next morning, so she threw the whole house under the bus with false cries of “rape” in retaliation. What a monster, I thought, only of her.

Back then, I considered myself lucky. I assumed I had never been sexually assaulted, and it would take years to realize how wrong I was even then. It’s all too easy to blame the victim when the alternative is challenging the intricate web of excuses that society has thrust upon us. At 18, I still believed rape to be an abomination, a burst of violence in a dark alley, perpetrated by a monster straight out of a scary story. How could the boys I loved so much, the same boys who once pulled a handsy stranger off of me, be monsters? It was so much easier to blame her.

Because it’s always easier to blame the woman. Hell, I’d spent so much time blaming myself for my own sexual assaults at 15 that I wouldn’t even recognize them for what they were for nearly 20 more years. Women make good scapegoats: we’ve been othered for so long that our “mysterious” nature is the source of good-natured ribbing. Men aren’t expected to understand us, the implicit conceit being that they needn’t worry about respecting us, either. We’re taught as far back as elementary school that our bodies need policing, that we can’t dress or act a certain way because of its effect on boys. And that’s to say nothing of the rape culture that makes us culpable for our own victimhood. If I went out, even today, wearing a short skirt and intending to drink, any consequences would be no one’s fault but my own. Assaulted by a stranger? It was my own fault for going into his hotel room and expecting him to listen when I said no. Assaulted by a friend? It was my own fault for leading him on.

So of course we blamed her, this Jane Doe with the reputation that preceded even her name. She went to the party, she drank the cheap beer, she knew what she was getting into. The only explanation that made any sense to my 18-year-old brain was that she woke up the next morning, regretted her decisions, and convinced herself that she had been raped to absolve herself of responsibility. Only now do I realize that most women just aren’t wired to think that way; on the contrary, most of the women I know try to justify even the most horrific violations of their bodies by placing the blame squarely on themselves.

If she was telling the truth, which I’m increasingly certain she was, think of the courage it took for her to do so. So early in the school year, challenging the underdogs that everyone on campus loved. People were outraged when SAE lost their party license; there’s no way they would’ve taken a rape charge any lighter. She had to have realized, at least somewhere in the back of her mind, that she was entering a battlefield, and she did so anyway. She took on a popular fraternity and watched as her reputation was torn to shreds for the rest of the school year. As everyone, including countless girls with experiences not unlike her own, vilified her with all the rest. I remember hearing that she was leaving school after the first semester; I couldn’t be sure, but I wouldn’t be surprised. So what’s more likely, that a conniving slattern would target a group of innocent young men who just happened to also be under social probation already and risk her entire college career on the off chance that the false accusation would be the one that was believed, or that an innocent young girl got deeply hurt and found the courage to tell the truth?

Fifteen years later, I’ll probably never know the truth. But at least now I believe her.

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Dallas: For the last six months, many Roman Catholic priests have felt like the public face of scandal, in their communities, even though most had no role in the sex abuse crisis engulfing the church. Now, they say, they face a new concern: whether the blameless in their ranks will be hurt under the ambitious policy bishops have adopted to keep abusive clergy away from parishioners. Under the “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People,” clergymen who molest children will never again be active in church work, and some will be formally removed from the priesthood. Many priests say they are concerned about the document’s board definition of abuse, and they question whether the church leaders who approved it have taken enough responsibility for their own roles in creating the moral emergency. “The policy is driven a lot more by public sentiment than the principle of compassion.” Said the Rev. Robert Silva, Head of the National Federation of priests’ Councils, which claims a membership of about half of the nation 46,000 priests. Since the scandal erupted in January with the conviction of a former Boston priest for molesting a boy, scores of people have come forward with accusations of sexual abuse by priests and indifference from church leaders. At least 250 priests have since resigned or been suspended. Silva said priests – already anxious about their interactions with children – we be even more apprehensive because of the definition of abuse the bishops approved on Friday. Abuse will now be considered as any inappropriate contact with a child, regardless of whether it involves force, physical contact or whether any harm is apparent. Silva called the wording "very frightening.” Philadelphia cardinal, Anthony Bevilacqua, who is a canon lawyer, said he too was concerned by the language and hoped it would be clarified when the document comes under review in two years. “It’s very difficult to come to a definition,” he said. “It must be something of a serious nature and involve some kind of bodily interaction.” Silva also complained that the plan contained severe punishments for the priests but no sanctions for bishops who mishandle abuse cases. The bishops have informed a national governor Frank Keating, to annually review whether church leaders are complying with the policy. Some clergy said that wasn’t enough. The bishops added a clause saying they “deeply regret that any of our decisions have obscured the good work of our priests.” But Mondignor Kenneth Lasch, a parish priest and canon lawyer in Paterson, New Jersey, Diocese felt the apology sounded stilted.

Answer the following question.

Q1. Give an overview of the above case.

Q2. Discuss the moral and ethical issues w.r.t the facts above.

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Paula is a freshman at a large university in southern California. She is involved with a sorority, Alpha Alpha, on her campus. Paula rushed Alpha Alpha because she heard that it was heavily involved in philanthropy. In fact, Alpha Alpha hosts an annual philanthropy week donating money to a charity that raises money for cancer research. Paula is excited to take part in the weeklong activities because philanthropy and service have always been an important part of her life. She wants to find out more about the charity, and is thrilled that other college students will also be finding out more about cancer research and what they can individually do to help fight cancer. When the week approaches, Paula is surprised at the activities that will take place. She notices that not once in the week’s activities does it mention cancer research. Teams simply signup and have each member pay $15 to partake in the activities. Paula notices that the activities are simply attending a dinner at a local restaurant, performing a two minute dance on stage, a karaoke tournament, a fashion show, and a scavenger hunt. Paula thinks the week is a lame excuse of a philanthropic effort. She hears from her older sorority sisters that teams just pay the fee and never hear about the charity again. Teams allegedly just participate to get drunk and attempt to win the activities for bragging rights. Paula is disappointed to be a part of such a philanthropy week.

Answer the following question.

Q1. Are philanthropy weeks, like the one Paula’s sorority puts on, ethical? Give your comment.

Q2. Do participants actually get an idea where their money is going? Explain.

Q3. What about charity balls that older individuals take part in? Oftentimes individuals pay a large sum of money per plate at these charity events, but don’t learn much about the charity and just attend to boost their social status. Discuss.

Q4. Is there a difference between the way they are run and these college philanthropy weeks? Debate.

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US researchers said on Monday they have created a new human embryonic stem cell by fusing an embryonic stem cell. They hope their method will provide a way to create tailor made treatments from scratch, using cloning technology. That would mean generating the valuable cells without using a human egg, and without creating a human embryo, which some people, including President George W. Bush, find objectionable. But the team, led by stem cell expert Douglas Melton, Kevin Eggan and others at Harvard Medical School, stress in a report to be published in next Friday’s issue of the journal Science that their method is not yet perfect. Stem cells are the body’s master cells, used to continually regenerate tissues, organs and blood. Those taken from days old embryos are considered the most versatile. They can produce any kind of tissue in the body. Doctors hope to use embryonic stem cells as a source of perfectly matched transplants to treat diseases such as cancer, Parkinson’s disease and some injuries. But because some people object to the destruction of or experimentation on a human embryo, US law restricts the use of federal funds for this kind of research. It is a hot debate in Congress and several bills have been offered for consideration that would either relax the federal restrictions or tighten them even more. Melton has complained about the restrains and, like other experts, has used private funding to pursue stem cell work. He and other experts say they only want to understand how to reprogram an ordinary cell and hope the use of human embryo would only be a short term and interim step to learning how to manufacture these cells. The Harvard team says they have taken a big step in this direction. Currently, embryonic stem cells are either taken from embryos left over from fertility clinics, or generated using a cloning technology called nuclear transfer. This requires taking the nucleus out of an egg cell and replacing it with the nucleus of an adult cell, called a somatic cell, f from the person to be treated. This reprograms the egg, which starts dividing as if it had been fertilized by a sperm.

Answer the following question.

Q1. Give an overview of the above case

Q2. What is cloning technology? Explain.

Q3. Explain the unethical aspects of cloning.

Q4. Discuss necessity and ethical aspects of cloning.

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Frank and Bobby are freshmen at a university on the semester system. They meet at orientation and bond over their major, Economics, and their hobby of playing sports. They decide to request one another as roommates, and both enroll in the same mathematics class: calculus for business majors. The two get off to a bad start academically. They are experiencing the freedom of living on their own for the first time. No parents are around to make sure they are keeping up with their homework assignments or readings. In fact, since Frank and Bobby are both in the same math class, they often take turns going to class. It starts off with the boys alternating going to class, but eventually turns into both boys often skipping. One evening, midway through the semester, Frank and Bobby run into a classmate who informs them they have a midterm the next morning. They successfully get her class notes, however they soon realize they don’t have enough time to study unless they pull an all-nighter. Bobby doesn’t believe he can stay up all night and still perform well on the test the next morning. He decides that it’s in his best interest to create a cheat sheet and plug equations into his calculator. He Frank is against cheating. He calls out Bobby, saying that this is unethical. Instead, he buys two Adderall pills from a student in their dorm who has ADD. He has heard that taking Adderall helps you stay awake and focus. Bobby gets upset when he finds out Frank is taking Adderall to study. Bobby claims that there is no difference between taking a drug that isn’t prescribed to you to help you study and bringing in a cheat sheet. Bobby says they are both forms of cheating. Frank disagrees, claiming that at least he’s going through the process of studying for the midterm.

Answer the following question.

Q1. Do you believe it’s cheating to take an academic performance enhancing drug that isn’t prescribed to you? Comment.

Q2. Is relying on academic performance enhancing drugs to study dangerous in long term? Explain.

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Business Ethics

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Answer the following question.

Q1. Give an overview of the above case.

Q2. Discuss the moral and ethical issues w.r.t the facts above.

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Answer the following question.

Q1. Are philanthropy weeks, like the one Paula’s sorority puts on, ethical? Give your comment.

Q2. Do participants actually get an idea where their money is going? Explain.

Q4. Is there a difference between the way they are run and these college philanthropy weeks? Debate.

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Answer the following question.

Q1. Give an overview of the above case

Q2. What is cloning technology? Explain.

Q3. Explain the unethical aspects of cloning.

Q4. Discuss necessity and ethical aspects of cloning.

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Answer the following question.

Q1. Do you believe it’s cheating to take an academic performance enhancing drug that isn’t prescribed to you? Comment.

Q2. Is relying on academic performance enhancing drugs to study dangerous in long term? Explain.

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Business Ethics

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Answer the following question.

Q1. Give an overview of the above case.

Q2. Discuss the moral and ethical issues w.r.t the facts above.

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Answer the following question.

Q1. Are philanthropy weeks, like the one Paula’s sorority puts on, ethical? Give your comment.

Q2. Do participants actually get an idea where their money is going? Explain.

Q4. Is there a difference between the way they are run and these college philanthropy weeks? Debate.

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Answer the following question.

Q1. Give an overview of the above case

Q2. What is cloning technology? Explain.

Q3. Explain the unethical aspects of cloning.

Q4. Discuss necessity and ethical aspects of cloning.

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Answer the following question.

Q1. Do you believe it’s cheating to take an academic performance enhancing drug that isn’t prescribed to you? Comment.

Q2. Is relying on academic performance enhancing drugs to study dangerous in long term? Explain.

Assignment Solutions, Case study Answer sheets

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Us researchers said on monday they have created a new human embryonic stem cell by fusing an embryon

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Business Ethics

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Answer the following question.

Q1. Give an overview of the above case.

Q2. Discuss the moral and ethical issues w.r.t the facts above.

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Answer the following question.

Q1. Are philanthropy weeks, like the one Paula’s sorority puts on, ethical? Give your comment.

Q2. Do participants actually get an idea where their money is going? Explain.

Q4. Is there a difference between the way they are run and these college philanthropy weeks? Debate.

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Answer the following question.

Q1. Give an overview of the above case

Q2. What is cloning technology? Explain.

Q3. Explain the unethical aspects of cloning.

Q4. Discuss necessity and ethical aspects of cloning.

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Answer the following question.

Q1. Do you believe it’s cheating to take an academic performance enhancing drug that isn’t prescribed to you? Comment.

Q2. Is relying on academic performance enhancing drugs to study dangerous in long term? Explain.

Assignment Solutions, Case study Answer sheets

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Business Ethics

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Answer the following question.

Q1. Give an overview of the above case.

Q2. Discuss the moral and ethical issues w.r.t the facts above.

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Answer the following question.

Q1. Are philanthropy weeks, like the one Paula’s sorority puts on, ethical? Give your comment.

Q2. Do participants actually get an idea where their money is going? Explain.

Q4. Is there a difference between the way they are run and these college philanthropy weeks? Debate.

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Answer the following question.

Q1. Give an overview of the above case

Q2. What is cloning technology? Explain.

Q3. Explain the unethical aspects of cloning.

Q4. Discuss necessity and ethical aspects of cloning.

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Answer the following question.

Q1. Do you believe it’s cheating to take an academic performance enhancing drug that isn’t prescribed to you? Comment.

Q2. Is relying on academic performance enhancing drugs to study dangerous in long term? Explain.

Assignment Solutions, Case study Answer sheets

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Business Ethics

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Answer the following question.

Q1. Give an overview of the above case.

Q2. Discuss the moral and ethical issues w.r.t the facts above.

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Answer the following question.

Q1. Are philanthropy weeks, like the one Paula’s sorority puts on, ethical? Give your comment.

Q2. Do participants actually get an idea where their money is going? Explain.

Q4. Is there a difference between the way they are run and these college philanthropy weeks? Debate.

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Answer the following question.

Q1. Give an overview of the above case

Q2. What is cloning technology? Explain.

Q3. Explain the unethical aspects of cloning.

Q4. Discuss necessity and ethical aspects of cloning.

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Answer the following question.

Q1. Do you believe it’s cheating to take an academic performance enhancing drug that isn’t prescribed to you? Comment.

Q2. Is relying on academic performance enhancing drugs to study dangerous in long term? Explain.

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Business Ethics

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Answer the following question.

Q1. Give an overview of the above case.

Q2. Discuss the moral and ethical issues w.r.t the facts above.

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Answer the following question.

Q1. Are philanthropy weeks, like the one Paula’s sorority puts on, ethical? Give your comment.

Q2. Do participants actually get an idea where their money is going? Explain.

Q4. Is there a difference between the way they are run and these college philanthropy weeks? Debate.

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Answer the following question.

Q1. Give an overview of the above case

Q2. What is cloning technology? Explain.

Q3. Explain the unethical aspects of cloning.

Q4. Discuss necessity and ethical aspects of cloning.

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Answer the following question.

Q1. Do you believe it’s cheating to take an academic performance enhancing drug that isn’t prescribed to you? Comment.

Q2. Is relying on academic performance enhancing drugs to study dangerous in long term? Explain.

Assignment Solutions, Case study Answer sheets

Project Report and Thesis contact

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What about charity balls that older individuals take part in Oftentimes individuals pay a large sum of money per plate at these charity events, but don’t learn much about the charity

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Business Ethics

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Answer the following question.

Q1. Give an overview of the above case.

Q2. Discuss the moral and ethical issues w.r.t the facts above.

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Answer the following question.

Q1. Are philanthropy weeks, like the one Paula’s sorority puts on, ethical? Give your comment.

Q2. Do participants actually get an idea where their money is going? Explain.

Q4. Is there a difference between the way they are run and these college philanthropy weeks? Debate.

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Answer the following question.

Q1. Give an overview of the above case

Q2. What is cloning technology? Explain.

Q3. Explain the unethical aspects of cloning.

Q4. Discuss necessity and ethical aspects of cloning.

CASE STUDY (20 Marks)

Answer the following question.

Q1. Do you believe it’s cheating to take an academic performance enhancing drug that isn’t prescribed to you? Comment.

Q2. Is relying on academic performance enhancing drugs to study dangerous in long term? Explain.

Assignment Solutions, Case study Answer sheets

Project Report and Thesis contact

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