At first my reaction was reasonable: some asshole cop has not only handcuffed this socially-conscious basketball fan, but he is taking the extra step of gently but firmly pushing his nose, just because he can. aaaw, "mugging for the cameras." then i read the caption: "riot police officer adjusts protester's glasses." wait, what? i'm sure that's not what happened. a quick search of AP images from the week reveals this is one small, sweet moment amongst much more frequent moments of neighborhood-protester solidarity. and THEN i remembered that there are people that really like this sort of thing:
there's some comments underneath this photo on flickr, which i don't understand at all. is it a japanese thing? NO. but i had to listen to this song on the radio for six months before i was able to acknowledge what it was actually about:
a girl i was friends with in highschool used to drive around in a lifted jeep safari with a 3 ft. tall glass bong in the back, visible from the road. she had this bumpersticker on the back/ did it help? i don't know, but she never got actually actually arrested:
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