BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. WEST SIXTH TODAY, EAST FOURTH TOMORROW…OHIO CITY AND COVENTRY THE DAY AFTER THAT.
Where does it end? Lakewood? Shaker? The thin blue line is all that is stopping this from happening, but it’s probably too late. Cleveland…the domino theory at work.

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grizzster commening on Reported beating of a Morehouse graduate by off-duty officer adds to controversy in Cleveland’s Warehouse District

Seriously, (almost) every single comment on this article is intensely racist.  Thank god the plain dealer comments are here to make sure everyone knows that Cleveland is serious about keeping black people in their place (as the commenter says, keeping them from ‘ruining’ certain neighborhoods)  and cracking down on black troublemakers BAMN.

from the original article:

The men said they had gone out that night with white co-workers from a downtown bank, members of the same executive training program. The two were in the lobby near the door, preparing to leave, when a security guard pointedly told them it was time to go.

Ruiz, who recently moved here from Charlotte, N.C., said they responded that they were waiting for friends to come down from upstairs. He said the security guard shoved them out the door and onto the sidewalk.

Ruiz said that when he objected, another security guard grabbed him and slammed him onto the roof of a parked car and began punching him.

The street was busy with people and police, and Ruiz said he assumed police would come to his aid. Soon, he said, he realized he was dealing with a police officer.

In a police report, Officer Anthony J. Sauto said he was working off-duty and in plain clothes for Velvet Dog when he saw Ruiz and Parilla refusing to leave and he intervened. He said Ruiz became “verbally and physically aggressive,” then resisted arrest and tried to hit him.

I hear a lot of people from the northern part of the United States talk about how racist the southern part of this country is, but honestly I am not sure I have been anywhere in this country where serious racism and open/outward support of segregation is more a part of public/private discussion than cleveland. And I know you obviously can’t judge a whole city by the people who comment on newspaper webpages, but its a bizarrely frequent part of normal conversation.

Ohio has a complicated white supremacist history, and it seems like we might fare better in the future if we really seriously got down to business and dealt with our white supremacist present.

It looked very much like the beginnings of a schizophrenic or bipolar episode,” said Christopher Kobet, a fourth-year neurology resident at University Hospital who helped pinpoint Echols’ problem.
But the real culprit wasn’t in her head: It was a tiny tumor on her left ovary.
The tumor was a teratoma, a freakish, but not uncommon, conglomeration of basic cells growing out of control. Some teratomas, if they’re big enough, even contain eyeballs or tiny feet.
Echols’ body recognized the tumor as an invader, and developed antibodies against it, just like it would develop antibodies against a cold virus or a form of pollen she might be allergic to.
Those antibodies attacked certain neurochemicals in the brain, triggering the encephalitis and the hallucinations…
“When I first saw it, I thought it was a once-in-a-lifetime thing, what we call a zebra,” Kobet said. “But it’s not rare at all.”
Now that doctors know it exists and how to test for it, more cases are cropping up.
The implications of not making the right diagnosis are frightening.
“How many women, as recently as the 1950s and 1960s, were institutionalized with this because people thought they were schizophrenic?” Richards asked.

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Nightmarish tumor took her to brink

I am so enthralled with this story right now! The implications of this are so amazing/horrifying. In addition to the already established gendered/cultural nature of mental health this seems to add a really interesting layer of possibility to psychiatry. Psychiatry is so quick to diagnose mental illness as diseases that are brain diseases but what about the idea that you can have a disease with an identifiable biochemical process (in a non brain part of the body) that mimics what we think of as brain-pathology? NEAT!

I am also fairly impressed that the head of gyno-onc managed to even consider the societal ramifications of this when talking to the reporter.

Excuse me, but I think Ohio is a clear leader in the nation when it comes to knee-jerking, thinking inside the box and gravitating toward anything negative.

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clevebear commenting on ‘Snail rail’ criticism dogs supporters of Ohio’s 3C passenger rail plan

Idk about the rest of Ohio, but I like the idea of some passenger rail. If they could build a train to Detroit, then well I’d be even more psyched