Presque vu LXXIX
5 Years After: Portugal’s Drug Decriminalization Policy Shows Positive Results. Scientific American describes how street drug related deaths from overdoses drop and the rate of HIV cases crashes.
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A photo essay of the great depression in America:
Bud Fields and his family. Alabama. 1935 or 1936. Photographer: Walker Evans.
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Kathleen Maher’s review of Winged with Death has gone up on the NewCritics Site.
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Mario Orlando Hamlet Hardy Brenno Benedetti, Uruguayan writer, born 14 September 1920; died 17 May 2009: “When I’m buried/ don’t forget to put a Biro in my coffin.”
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wow i feel soo bad for them; but they actually found a way to survive in the great depresion (: anyways i think it would be better if people actually got to learn more about the great depresion(;!