Isn't that song referencing the Bible?

So with the new mayor coming, in recent days we have the interim SPD chief finally demoting DOJ-resisting brass, and now the resignation from SPOG leadership of its longtime rottenest bad apple. There's plenty still fucked up, but am I wrong in feeling optimistic?

What does he mean, "discernment?" That makes almost no sense in this context.

@2 yes, you are wrong.

They are totally unprepared to deal with devastation caused by the release of Cthulhu by Big Bertha

@3 "Discernment" is evangelical coded language for their perception of the "voice of god". What a piece of self-righteous, sanctimonious, BS.

P.S. Apologies if this is a double-post. An earlier attempt isn't showing up.

Just what does this man do when he's on the job?

He is an employee of the City of Seattle. SPD's roster lists Police Sergeant Richard F. O'Neill, #4451, Guild President, but they claim that products of work he does on that job (e.g., editing The Guardian) to be exempt from disclosure under the Public Records Act.

And yet another crashing fail for Randite philosophy. O'Neil leadership of the SPOG is grounded in a worldview that essentially denies the existence of collective abstract entities like "society" and "community" ... how could that possibly go wrong?

Oh, fer chrissakes. The song in question was taken from Ecclesiastes almost word-for-word and put to music by Pete Seeger, not the Byrds -- though the Byrds did indeed do a lovely job with it, and took it to the charts. Seeger, who is incredibly still alive at 94, was of course a honest-to-god Communist, for a while anyways, and has spent most of his life fighting against douchebags like Rich O'Neill.

Please don't anybody tell Seeger he said this. Let the old man live out his life in peace.

PS -- I got to see original Byrd Chris Hillman and his pal Herb Pedersen (who played and sang on approximately 200 hit records) sing this very song just the other day at the Triple Door. Not as awesome as the other Seeger tune they did, "The Bells of Rhymney", but pretty stunning nonetheless. I hope O'Neill wasn't in the audience, though there where a lot of stout greybeards in leather jackets.

Good riddance. Almost anyone that replaces him will be an improvement.

@5: No shit?! Huh. Thanks for the translation.

Boy, I sure will miss him.