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Toronto, 2012.03.22

So it's come to this: photographers preparing for photo shoots by first checking in with the police.

Or so reports a pro photographer in the US. This is how we coin phrases like "cry the beloved country".

rand()m quote

The point isn't revenge. It is justice. Revenge is like a wave that washes up on shore - it always washes back out again. Justice is like the shore - it's still there after the wave comes and goes.

—commenter "JP" on a Rolling Stone article about the crooks running Wall Street