An interview with Will Hall on violence and mental illness done by David Oaks on the Mindfreedom radio show. Discusses the murder of prominent psychiatrist Dr. Wayne Fenton by his teen patient, and the importance of rethinking the prison system and the ways we punish and stigmatize people who are violent.

oh sucks. i lost an entry. a very long one. maybe it was not meant to be

i am just sick again after two weeks of being blissfully free from physical ills. now it is a bladder infection and a cold it seems.

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This morning I checked my email and found out that Eric was struck and killed by a drunk driver on that bike path by the West Side Highway on Friday night. Just like that. He was 22 years old and was working as a schoolteacher in Brooklyn. Some drunk asshole in a BMW took our friend's life on that same bike path we all ride on all the time. It could have been any of us riding our bicycle on a Friday night.

Finally!

the "fat boy" sculpture