Occupation Station: At UC Davis, cops pepper spray peaceful sitting Occupiers, Occupy Los Angeles files a restraining order against the police, and Occupy Portland members are kicked out of a foreclosed house. Whew.
Like Father..: Libyan officials say they captured the elusive son of Moammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam.
There Goes Winter Break: Despite protest, Swiss officials cement a ban on nude hiking in the Alps.
Missing the Point: The FDA revokes license for successful breast cancer superdrug, Avastin. Doesn’t go over well.
Taxonomy of Trendy: NPR zooms in on the odd and ironic persona that is the hipster.
Whoops: A grand jury indicts Dane Reister—the Portland officer who mistakenly loaded his beanbag shotgun with live ammo and then shot a man this summer.
Come Again? Funny or Die’s political “bad lip reading” takes on the Ron dawg.
So is nude hiking legal in Oregon? During the two weeks out of the year when it’s both warm enough and there aren’t many mosquitoes?
You do realize that “hipsterization of america” thing is an attack on the Occupy movement, right?
Calling the non-hippie members of the movement “hipsters” has been an easy way of discrediting Occupy. You have now gotten the memo–remember, NPR is a very pro-Oligarchy outlet. Don’t trust ’em.
Or y’know: look at whatever you want and make up your own damn mind.
Either way, hipsters suck shit-ass.
Nothing gets by NPR…