God Save the Queen by the Sex Pistols
You know what would really annoy me? If there were an obnoxious media spectacle that somehow combined pathological celebrity worship and outdated government institutions that are based on silly religious ideas. And if NPR reported the crap out of it.
Via oswaldofguadalupe.
10 playsOutside of This American Life and maybe Car Talk, this is the best piece I’ve heard on public radio in years. Some death row prisoners in Alabama are doing Vipassana meditation:
“For the first three days, the only thing we do is sit and focus on our breath,” Young says. “This is to still the mind and get the mind sharp.”
Isolated in the gym, the inmates wake up at 4 a.m. and meditate on and off until 9 p.m. They eat a strict vegetarian diet. They can’t smoke or drink coffee. And there is absolutely no conversation — only an internal examination of how the body is reacting.
I watched Dear Zachary on Netflix over the weekend, and it pretty much knocked me on my ass, emotionally. I haven’t ever really had an occasion to reflect on exactly how terrible murder is, but that documentary rubbed my face in it, and sort of primed me for this poignant story that has policy ramifications. Anyway, everyone should listen to it.
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