Tri Epsilon

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

The United States of Autocomplete

This is a football- and college-friendly country. Also this.

Surprises: North Carolina furniture, Delaware Water Gap, Nevada Smiths.

Monday, January 10, 2011

it's a big day, not even counting snowpocalypse

Saturday, January 08, 2011

Supermax

James, who is in his twenties, has been beaten all his life, first by family members: “I was punched, kicked, slapped, bitten, thrown against the wall.” He began seeing mental-health workers at four and taking psychiatric medication at seven. He said he was bipolar and had many other disorders. When a doctor took him off his meds at age eighteen, he got into “selling drugs, robbing people, fighting, burglaries.” He received a twelve-year sentence for robbery. Of the four years James had been in prison when I met him, he had spent all but five months in solitary confinement. The isolation is “mental torture, even for people who are able to control themselves,” he said. It included periods alone in a cell “with no blankets, no clothes, butt-naked, mace covering me.” Everything James told me was confirmed by other inmates and prison employees.

James’s story illustrates an irony in the negative reaction of many Americans to the mistreatment of “war on terrorism” prisoners at Guantánamo. To little public outcry, tens of thousands of American citizens are being held in equivalent or worse conditions in this country’s super-harsh, super-maximum security, solitary-confinement prisons, or in comparable units of traditional prisons. The Obama administration— somewhat unsteadily—plans to shut down the Guantánamo detention center and ship its inmates to one or more supermaxes in the United States, as though this would mark a substantive change. In the supermaxes inmates suffer weeks, months, years, or even decades of mind-destroying isolation, usually without meaningful recourse to challenge the conditions of their captivity. Prisoners may be regularly beaten in cell extractions, and they receive meager health services. The isolation frequently leads to insane behavior including self-injury and suicide attempts.

The Worst of the Worst: Supermax Torture in America

Friday, January 07, 2011

hey

hey do you want some ether

cause I got some in this rag here

oh okay no

just let me know if you do

Thursday, January 06, 2011

Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Bowl prep

Auburn is practicing at Scottsdale Community College. You know what their mascot is?

That's right: The Fighting Artichokes.

Tuesday, January 04, 2011

has five, has ten, mark it off at...

RF fired. Sad.

Monday, January 03, 2011

where we at

CRISIS games (Tha Captainz Pix listed firzt):

12/21: Louisville v Southern Miss
12/27: Ga Tech v Air Force
12/28: Iowa v Missouri
12/29: Arizona v Okie St
12/30: Tennessee v UNC
12/31: Clemson v USF
12/31: Florida St v South Carolina
01/01: Penn St v Florida
01/01: Michigan v Miss St

Bolded the winners. That puts Tha Captain at three wins, Tha Charlie at six. BUT!

01/03: Va Tech v Stanford
01/04: The Ohio St v Arkansas
01/07: TAMU v LSU

We have three games left. If Tha Captain puts the team on his back, cross the plane, touchdown, then we go to the tiebreaker. If Samford takes care of business tonight, or if either SEC Western Division representative wins, then that's it.

Of course, the real winners are the good people of Birmingham, Alabama, who will be hosting the potential tie-breaker match next weekend.

Sunday, January 02, 2011

the MOST people!

Saturday, January 01, 2011

let's have a great day of football, hosers.

3e bowl pick them 2010: happy new year, buttsuckers

3E: The SEC East of fraternities. Nice to see that cock VEGASBOT end the year with a total wank.

Friday, December 31, 2010

we interrupt your regularly scheduled programming for this hatepost

HEY SUCK IT GEORGIA FANS YOU OBNOXIOUS JERKWADS. BURN DOWN AND DON'T REBUILD. YOU WILL PROBABLY WIN THIS GAME BUT THAT IS BECAUSE YOU ARE PLAYING CENTRAL FLORIDA IN A NEW YEAR'S EVE BOWL GAME AND THAT IS A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH ITSELF.