Video of African American voter suppression in Ohio. It will sicken you.

It was nostalgia week in music. Elton John can’t look at snowy mountains without thinking of cocaine. Robbie Williams said that drugs gave him “some of the best times of [his] life” until Elton abducted him and took him to a rehab clinic (not likely in the Alps).

Interesting piece on gays in Ecuador and that country’s 180-degree shift from outlawing homosexuality to banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Still, there remain difficulties: When you tell your parents that you’re attracted to someone of the same sex, they would prefer you be dead or a thief or a drug addict. An open homosexual life in Ecuador is extremely difficult.”