{"id":90421632,"date":"2022-12-16T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/?p=90421632"},"modified":"2022-12-16T13:31:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T13:31:00","slug":"friday-links-dont-trust-cops-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/?p=90421632","title":{"rendered":"Friday Links: Don&#039;t Trust Cops Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;There are places where cops are not hated, Captain. But in those places you wouldn&#8217;t be a cop.&#8221; &#8211; Raymond Chandler, &#8216;The Long Goodbye&#8217;<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not even a week after my \u201cMajesty of the Great Links\u201d Friday links, the the icy climes of lakefront winter attacked me and everyone I know. The four-year-old\u2019s play cousins and his parents got sick. Any Chicago friends I talked to got sick. My wife got sick. The four-year-old got sick; his teacher said \u201cmake sure it\u2019s not RSV before he comes back!\u201d It wasn\u2019t RSV, but the pediatrician said flu rates for Chicago were like 20-some-odd percent, and that\u2019s <em>just for people who go to the ER and get tested<\/em>. My best bet is all of Chicago is sick. Everyone, protect yourselves. <\/p><div class=\"subscription-widget-wrap-editor\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/shipwreckedsailor.substack.com\/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}\" data-component-name=\"SubscribeWidgetToDOM\"><div class=\"subscription-widget show-subscribe\"><div class=\"preamble\"><p class=\"cta-caption\">11 out of 10 doctors say subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work, it\u2019s the best medicine (aka free).<\/p><\/div><form class=\"subscription-widget-subscribe\"><input type=\"email\" class=\"email-input\" name=\"email\" placeholder=\"Type your email\u2026\" tabindex=\"-1\"\/><input type=\"submit\" class=\"button primary\" value=\"Subscribe\"\/><div class=\"fake-input-wrapper\"><div class=\"fake-input\"\/><div class=\"fake-button\"\/><\/div><\/form><\/div><\/div><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Being legendarily terrible at taking care of myself\/admitting I\u2019m sick, I actually took a sick day Thursday and spent the day shivering away chills under a weighted blanket. Seriously, this is a big step for me. I said, \u201chey, do I get credit for taking a sick day?\u201d and Mal got like one sentence out before saying, \u201cone of your flaws is not admitting you\u2019re sick.\u201d So, y\u2019know, I took a sick day. Cue up Jeb!<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/03af3f51-405f-47d5-8c72-eeb405c9f557_480x454.gif\"\/><\/figure><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s one sick day I remember crystallizing my <em>Star Wars <\/em>fandom. The special editions must\u2019ve come out, which would put me about 10. My mom put them on and told me stories about going to see <em>Star Wars<\/em> when it came out and loving it, then taking my Grandmom and her being super weirded out by the aliens in Mos Eisley Cantina. Today, I watched a bunch of <em>Unsolved Mysteries<\/em> in the middle of the afternoon. Both franchises are great reminders that cops are bad. <\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><p>I am <em>not<\/em> a True Crime guy. I love mysteries, I love thrillers (David Fincher movies are comfort food to me), I love a good look into the mind of evil. But True Crime is inherently at least <em>a little<\/em> exploitative, and I always find myself doubting cops\/local news. Because cops are liars and local news knows dead bodies get clicks\/viewers. That said, <em>Unsolved<\/em> <em>Mysteries <\/em>is great comfort food, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/news\/defenders\/2021\/05\/17\/tim-matouk-breaks-silence-11-years-after-joann-matouk-romain-found-dead-in-detroit-river\/\">JoAnn Romain was absolutely killed by a cop<\/a>. Watch that \u201cLady In The Lake\u201d episode. The cops are absolutely doing that \u201cCode of Silence\u201d BS the entire time. <\/p><\/li><li><p>Speaking of lying cops, here\u2019s tabloid rag <em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanMarino\/status\/1603014733317242882?s=20&amp;t=kcSlVMRDjN4k9sUMhu0hMg\">The Daily Mail<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanMarino\/status\/1603014733317242882?s=20&amp;t=kcSlVMRDjN4k9sUMhu0hMg\"> with an outright lie of a headline<\/a> (link goes to screenshot), saying a cop \u201cnearly died\u201d after \u201cfentanyl exposure.\u201d Fentanyl is dangerous. Cops and local news spreading lies about how it affects people does nothing to help anyone. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/second-opinions\/101577\">Read this.<\/a> <\/p><\/li><li><p>Told you we\u2019d get to <em>Star Wars<\/em>: here\u2019s some excellent writing from Aaron Bady on police, empire, and how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/second-opinions\/101577\">the crushing weight of \u201cjust doing your job\u201d is felt in <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/second-opinions\/101577\">Andor<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/second-opinions\/101577\">.<\/a> <\/p><\/li><li><p>Here\u2019s a solid YouTube breakdown of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LXVj2cDP1Gg\">banality of evil in <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LXVj2cDP1Gg\">Andor<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LXVj2cDP1Gg\">, from The Canvas<\/a>. <\/p><\/li><li><p>For some good ol\u2019 fashioned \u201cget revenge of Nazis,\u201d here\u2019s <span class=\"mention-wrap\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Shatter Zone&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:1198857,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/shatterzone&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:null,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;5f848a20-5a81-4655-a0e7-39dd42a76211&quot;}\" data-component-name=\"MentionToDOM\"\/> on Nakam, a terrorist group of Holocaust survivors who, uh\u2026sought revenge on Nazis. <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/behind-the-bastards\/id1373812661?i=1000590016483\">Part 1<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/behind-the-bastards\/id1373812661?i=1000590267268\">Part 2<\/a><\/p><\/li><li><p>Finally, something that\u2019s pure fun: I do not know if Chicago writer Matthew Sigur, over at his <span class=\"mention-wrap\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Adjective Mountain&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:1070880,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/adjectivemountain&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/4db16319-fbb7-4e6b-9eaa-51861ed05d4b_1280x1280.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;da5f0562-46d6-493e-9f39-4858909e5743&quot;}\" data-component-name=\"MentionToDOM\"\/> blog, is doing fiction or non-fiction with \u201cThe Saga of Fart Turd Sports.\u201d I also do not care. Googling \u201cfart turd sports\u201d turns up news stories about Dan Orlovsky farting on-air, and googling the only name that seems google-able, Ryan MacClane, turns up a very handsome male porn star who\u2019s OnlyFans bills his as \u201ca top tier performer and paragon on physical perfection,\u201d which looks inarguable, based on images alone. Anyway, NOTHING in those two sentences is as hilarious\/intriguing as \u201cThe Saga of Fart Turd Sports,\u201d so please go check it out: <a href=\"https:\/\/adjectivemountain.substack.com\/p\/the-saga-of-fart-turd-sports-part\">Part 1<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/adjectivemountain.substack.com\/p\/the-saga-of-fart-turd-sports-part-two\">Part 2<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ul><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sorry you got an email, <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chris<\/p><div class=\"subscription-widget-wrap-editor\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/shipwreckedsailor.substack.com\/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}\" data-component-name=\"SubscribeWidgetToDOM\"><div class=\"subscription-widget show-subscribe\"><div class=\"preamble\"><p class=\"cta-caption\">Thanks for reading shipwrecked sailor! 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