ok, so i'm getting a little dizzy from lack of sleep. for the past week i've done nothing but stare at lines of code, and figure out intricate calculations and relationships in databases. from 9 am until some days, 9pm. not to mention the fact that tuesday was my birthday and i went out with some friends who bought me round after round of shots regardless of the fact that i had to get up and work the next morning (how dare they!). and every time i went to sit down and just pretty much fuck off, someone needed my help with something. emails aren't working, web sites aren't loading, etc and then the damned phone wouldn't stop ringing and my fucking chat program logged into msn, aim, yahoo!, google talk and icq, is just going ballistic whether i'm set to away or not. gotta write my daily letters to mike cause i love him and i miss him so terribly. oh, and of course, i have to set aside 3 hours a week to tune into big brother all stars because it's about all that totally blanks my mind and sometimes i need a good mind-blanking.

suffice to fucking say, i haven't had a moment to just sit the fuck down and be courtney. i haven't kept up on reading all the new posts to the RSS feeds i sub to, which is close to 100 now (i'm hooked on information and it's beautiful syndication, uh-huh), haven't had a moment to read my book, no moments to write anything except the letters, no time for play with puppy, no time for rollerblading with mom, sleepy all the time, i couldn't even fucking watch big brother live, i had to tape it.

well, ladies and gents, i finally had time time today. i slept in until 1pm after a night at karaoke with the ladies, woke up all hungover like homer simpson at church, sat down at my computer, launched my feeds and have been at it ever since. and i got through it all. there were 1400 new articles to be read. granted, some of them were videos and some pictures, like the fucking bomb shit stuff over @ bibliodyssey, but it was a lot. and i just finished. and i'm tired now. i am seeing double. double.

but anyway, the whole fucking point of this ginormous blabber, is that, well, earlier i posted: who's afraid of the big bad aryan brotherhood, about the convicted big bosses of the aryan brotherhood prison gang. but i've had another few thoughts on the topic since, so here goes.

"and another thing!" prison systems promote racism:

The effects of imprisonment are largely negative. Rape is a serious problem in prisons. Many prison policies, such as racially segregated housing, condone and actively promote racism.

GPCA Platform

On Feb. 6, 2006, Jessie Lee Williams, Jr., a 40-year-old black man in a Southern Mississippi jail, was allegedly hooded and hog-tied by police, beaten about the head and testicles and ultimately died from blunt injuries to the head.

The Raw Story | Video shows Ghraib-like torture by sheriffs lead to man's death, say groups, family

i hate hate hate how people place the sole blame on every crime, every crime on the person who committed the crime. i mean, obviously the perpetrator holds a lot of the blame, but look you stupid fucking jackasses, we've had incarceration in some form or another since the beginning of civilization. has it stopped crime? is crime not considerably worse as far as it's spread and scale than it's been in centuries past? do you suppose these facts could teach us something? that perhaps, if what you are truly concerned about is preventing crime, preventing human beings from becoming the victims of crime, if that's what you're truly worried about, maybe we should just fucking consider, for a moment, that perhaps prison isn't working?

hey, here's a goddamned thought... the aryan brotherhood is a prison gang, meaning it is almost exclusively limited to the people incarcerated in america's prison system. sorry, the white people. this gang commits crime within prison, as do all gangs like it. in fact, a lot of prisoners currently locked up commit crimes while incarcerated whether they're in gangs or not. do you suppose for a moment that it's a possibility that prison might even promote crime?

also, right wing conservative politics cause crime. i'm not just spewing this like a symptom of tourette's either, there's infallable reasoning behind it. just ask me. i dare you.

gasp. i know i'm a fucking satanic heathen and will burn in hell eternally for just thinking that. except there's no damned hell. 'cause god doesn't believe in prison either, fuckers.

hey, in lighter news, ken jennings has a blog!

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