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Over the weekend a massive 11-hour riot broke out at a jail in Chino, just outside Los Angeles. Between Saturday night and Sunday morning some 250 prisoners were injured, with over fifty ending up hospitalized. Though nobody was killed, and no prison employees were injured, the violence between black and Latino gangs did some pretty [...]

Hey, so, it’s basically Moon Week this week, with the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing coming up on Monday and tomorrow marking the date that Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong lifted off in Apollo 11. Accordingly, every media outlet is knee-deep in nostalgic moon-gazing coverage, but we’re more interested in the ways that [...]

Last time our weekly psychoanalysticle ended on a video of an airplane flying suggestively through a monument. Though the video served to help illustrate the idea that some monuments derive symbolic power from their yonic shape, it turns out to have been uncannily prophetic. That Freudian slip foreshadowed this week’s installment of Freudian Fridays, which [...]