Morning Brew: August 27th

The birthplace of The Olympics burns under Global Warming's intense heat while Beijing's being whitewashed (redwashed?), and while "Riot 2010 Why Wait?" graffitti has popped up in a garbage infested West Coast city whose housing problems are at developing country proportions.

Poverty Group Out to Cheap Lunch. Whatever, there will be a billion backseat pundits offering opinions on what we should do but these guys are doing something, however puerile, about the desperate state of affairs in the Downtown East Side. "We abandon our detractors to the anonymous crowd of the easily offended", or "People should not be afraid of its government, the government should be afraid of its people".

Or maybe we should build ourselves a little protest playpen. Not one of your better ideas Kevin.

If prostitutes want to avoid the dangers that are inherent in the trade, they need to stop being prostitutes. Awesome, so if soldiers don't want to die then don't be soldiers? If you don't want to die, don't be a human? What a goof. Because, its really that simple. Some 12 year old girl is watching Moary fucking Povich doing her homework and drinking a glass of milk all of a sudden decides, hey, in 10 years I think I want to be in the back seat of a brown van giving a massive sweaty pervert a hand job for 5 bucks to get enough for a rock. I call bullshit.