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May 12 ScreenName commented on Slog Bible Study: Luke 19:23-27.

#24, and thank you for a very intelligent response. It's a pleasure. As a believer (and a reader of Slog*) I read the Thomas story as showing that someone who doubted was still loved and accepted - by the main man. Clearly the others wanted to judge him unworthy. This would set the pattern for the following two centuries, and counting. But I say, skept away!

*clearly a liberal believer.

May 12 ScreenName commented on Slog Bible Study: Luke 19:23-27.

These passages come as part of a long chain of parables, and after he tells a rich man that he must sell everything in order to get into the Kingdom of Heaven. If you read them all, it is clear (at least to me) that Jesus is trying to say: "It's not what you expect." He's trying to shake us up, to make us examine our assumptions and question the currency of the realm, be it wealth, power, wisdom, wariness, status, righteousness, cows, pigs, or whatever you hold sacred. I'd say that's a pretty good message, and pretty hard to swallow even if it's spelled out. Cause, you know, we all have our sacred cows. I mean, everyone but the readers of Slog, of course.

Aug 17, 2012 ScreenName commented on Hempfest Is Happening Right Now—but They're Not Trying to Legalize Pot.

Let's say in a few years some threat to the medical pot community's little decriminalized and but not terribly legal gravy train materializes. Oh I don't know - like the Feds, perhaps? Do you think any of us who are not stoned out of our minds will stand up for you after this? After you opposed a perfectly reasonable and likely to win initiative?

You're never, ever, ever going to get completely legal, unregulated pot. Never. So the best you're going to get is on the table. The most likely it'll ever pass is now. But you go ahead and whine cause of the DUI provision. Go right ahead.

Stupid fucks.

Aug 9, 2012 ScreenName commented on The Big Trees of Seattle.

Have you seen the redwood in Montlake?

Jun 28, 2012 ScreenName commented on National Go Out to a Gay Bar and Have a Drink Day.

How does this fit with the "straight girls are not welcome to have their bachelorette parties at gay bars" thing from a few weeks back?

Jun 26, 2012 ScreenName commented on Why Parents Say YES to the Washington Public Charter Schools Initiative.

Why is it considered a good thing if entire schools full of children have their education disrupted because their charter school under performs, closes and they have to be sent to somewhere else? My high school closed when I was a sophomore (under enrollment in the post-baby boom years, love ya boomers!) and I remember how traumatic it was for all of us hormone-enfeebled teens.

Why set these children up for the disruption when we already know that, statistically, charter schools will tend to under perform?

Charter schools are the educational trend du jour. If we can resist a while longer, something shinier will come along to distract the corporatist reformers.

Jun 21, 2012 ScreenName commented on City Will Consider "Wholesale Change" to Pool Policy.

Oh, and great work reporting on this thing that has to happen.

Jun 21, 2012 ScreenName commented on City Will Consider "Wholesale Change" to Pool Policy.

Who is Medgar Edwards? http://www.seattle.gov/parks/aquatics/ev…

Jun 4, 2012 ScreenName commented on More Bad News for Seattle's Police Reform Effort.

This is the second Seattle cop investigated recently for wrongdoing (Mike Sanford) who had an important position in the federal reform effort. Third time will be a trend? N'est pas?

May 10, 2012 ScreenName commented on Holding Down and Terrorizing a Crying, Pleading Boy Is Not a "Prank," Mitt.

It is very interesting that these kinds of character flaws go so unreported by the media. I came across this Wikipedia page a few days ago. Growing up in Chicago when Da Mayor reigned, I (1) never realized there'd been such race riots and (2) certainly never realized that the Mayor had most likely led groups terrorizing, killing and brutalizing innocent Chicagoans as a teen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Rac…

To think what the press put Bill Clinton through for the consensual and stupid sex acts he shared. But this type of deep and disturbing behavior gets a pass. Don't give up. It has to change.