Missing three vials of blood, but with added rage

[clevermanka]

I assume people have heard about the Ferguson, MO shooting? I'm not going to link to any articles, because so far I can't find a single one that first addresses the fact that cops shot an unarmed kid. Every single news article I can find online leads with the looting and the rioting and look at these horrible black people and oh dear injured police officers. Just fuck that. FUCK THAT. The wretched media monsters need to open the story with the fact that a young man was just robbed of his life. But no. What is most important is that businesses are being harmed and two officers have been injured.



A couple weeks ago, I dropped my plastic sippy cup at the office. Having an open container of liquid next to me at my desk is a hazard (an open container of liquid next to me at any location is a hazard), so I needed to replace it*, but I've been doing my best to avoid using plastics as food/drink storage. Even BPA-free stuff isn't really in the clear, IMO. So I plunked down the money for this little setup. What with purchasing the mason jar, lid-and-straw pack, and the pack of lids-with-rings, it came out to be about three times as expensive as a basic plastic sippy cup. Even more than the loads I dough I drop on supplements and specialty doctor visits, it's the little expenditures like this that remind me of the privilege of wealth. I'm grateful to have the resources to do what I can for my health.

Which, speaking of, I had some blood drawn this morning for a six-week-later analysis of the tweak Dr. Khosh made to my thyroid tincture and another full female hormone panel. I'm curious to see if the new testosterone supplement made enough of a difference to switch permanently because it is expensive. Hell, they're all expensive--I'm currently on supplements for regulating estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, cortisol, and my thyroid, plus the stuff I use to help me stay asleep at night--so knocking the price of one bottle down even $10/month is helpful.

* The fact that I broke my sippy cup by knocking it to the floor while it was half-full of water is sufficient information about the necessity of lidded beverage containers, I think.

Comments

[zitronenhai.livejournal.com]

I have been trying to find worthy articles regarding Michael Brown's murder, too, and been coming up mostly empty so far. The most recent International Business Times article has been the least useless one I have seen thus far.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

It's obscene. Truly. Obscene.

[zitronenhai.livejournal.com]

Fucking appalling.

[1-rhiannon-1.livejournal.com]

:( The page I found first was a list of articles and tweets and various things - the first thing on the page said that the kid was unarmed when he was shot, but no one can say why the cop shot him. If you can't defend what you've done, why the hell did you do it? :(

I can't have a cup at my desk that doesn't have a lid. Bad things happen.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

And then there's all the articles that say "And he was starting college tomorrow!" Because, you know, the fact that he was A Black Kid Going To College makes it MORE SADDER. Because people who go to college are worth more. Right?

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

In all fairness, his mama was the one to bring up the college thing, I saw her on KMBC.. she cried so hard about how hard she worked to make sure that he could go to college. My heart broke for her regardless of her sacrifice, but I can see why it was so very important to her.
Hell, in many areas like that, it's a big damn deal for kids to finish high school, they have so little hope for a future.

More important was that he was walking AWAY, when he was shot REPEATEDLY. There was no threat to that cop. NONE.

[sherwood21.livejournal.com]

I found this (http://fox4kc.com/2014/08/11/outraged-community-erupts-in-riots-looting-following-fatal-shooting-of-teen-by-police/) article, which does address the shooting first, and that the violence and looting broke out in response to the shooting.

I hope you get good news back on your lab results.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

CNN and USA Today have both published articles that talk about the shooting first, too. I don't know if that's recent in the last four hours or if my search results are changing. Regardless of the why, though, it's still a disgusting thing.

[sherwood21.livejournal.com]

It very much is.