January 14, 2017

Even in cities with the worst violent crime and homicide rates, like Milwaukee, New Orleans, St. Louis, and Chicago, violence is contained to a relatively small amount of blocks, typically in underprivileged, undereducated, almost uniformly African-American neighborhoods forsaken by city policies and brutal policing. / The Guardian

“At one point, he cornered the hot chocolate market. He bought up every package of Swiss Miss from the commissary and sold it for a profit in the prison yard.” Bernie Madoff is now profiting off of a hot chocolate racket at the Butner Federal Correction Complex outside Durham, NC. / MarketWatch

In case you’re wondering what it’s like to ride out an avalanche unscathed. / YouTube