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WTO, 10 years later

By brad | Published: November 29, 2009
I got my first taste and only taste of tear gas ten years ago today. I was an 18 year old college freshman at the University of Washington. It was a typical November day in Seattle, about 50 degrees and drizzling. Around 10 in the morning I was walking to my calculus class through red [...]
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I have swine flu.

By brad | Published: October 27, 2009
Yes, I have swine flu. I went to bed at Sunday night with a temperature of 99.6 and woke up with a temperature of 101.1, six hours later it was 102.3. I hurried to the grocery store to get Tylenol to control my fever. My anxiety was recalling thoughts of listening to NPR last spring. Phrases [...]
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burning car outside

By brad | Published: January 20, 2009
This is how my inauguration day started. I think it’s going to be a good day for photography.
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Alabama

By brad | Published: March 31, 2007
Here’s a beautiful version of John Coltranes’ tune, Alabama. It’s so simple and so moving. It is the quartets reaction to the 1963 bombing of the 16th street Baptist Church in Birmingham Alabama. The KKK planted dynamite in the basement of the church attempting to instill fear in the civil rights movement. Four young girls [...]
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