Upstate

Why do we sit through a polar vortex through the winter? Why brave subzero temperatures, frozen faces, wet feet and shivers, and a wintry grasp that seems never ending?

This:



If you look closely, you can see a small farm creature named Anna B. Cat making her way across the pasture.

I did warn you I'd be playing with the panoramic camera setting.

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Yes, sir!

"Using drugs meant for individuals with medical needs to carry out executions is a misguided effort to mask the brutality of executions by making them look serene and beautiful — like something any one of us might experience in our final moments. But executions are, in fact, brutal, savage events, and nothing the state tries to do can mask that reality. Nor should we. If we as a society want to carry out executions, we should be willing to face the fact that the state is committing a horrendous brutality on our behalf." (U.S. 9th Circuit Court Chief Judge Alex Kozinski)

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