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8:18 AM nullbull commented on No One Gave a Damn When Bush Used the IRS to You Know What.

I'm sorry but Bush could spend a lot of time in Africa precisely because he is white. If a black president, already paying a political price by having his citizenship questioned, already dealing with being labeled a "globalist," and a "socialist," spends time in Africa, it simply feeds the distracting bullshit fire. A white president going to Africa is a magnanimous statesman. A black president going to Africa is likely to go native and take allllll those foreign aid dollars back to the dark continent with him, when his own country has it so, so hard.

That's the kind of bullshit this country's 4 or 5 next black presidents will have to put up with.

May 13 nullbull commented on Drunk of the Week.

Today's quaint brick apartments were yesterday's "condo cancer." Know what the difference between "generic, condo cancer" properties and the urban feel of a real city with density is? About 50 years. Seattle avoided density in the same pocket of time when wages and housing prices ran away from each other (housing up wages down). That was dumb. These places suffered for those stupid choices.

May 8 nullbull commented on The Fight Against Small Apartments.

And count me among those who believes (at least in the current market, this could flip pretty fast) that we simply have a gross supply problem in the housing market. Not enough. We simply need more.

We have geographic challenges - lakes, crazy hillsides, rivers, ravines, canals, Puget Sound - all in abundance WAY over the average for an American City - that mean simply annexing another block is not a sustainable or supportable model for growth. We have to be more creative and aggressive about density than other cities because of where our city is.

We've also fought density for a long time and that simple, gross supply problem I mentioned has resulted. If the city seems to simply be talking about MORE rather than BETTER right now, it's a natural consequence of this city putting off development and density for as long as it did. Smart growth takes time. We frittered our time away instead of slowly but surely expanding density, capacity, and housing options. Now we're simply behind the curve and have to catch up.

May 8 nullbull commented on The Fight Against Small Apartments.

If you don't like sketchy people, solve that problem by fully funding rehabilitation and social services that keep them from getting "sketchy."

Making sure they don't live next to you is not a solution to sketchy. It's a fearful, crouching capitulation.

Weak sauce, in other words. Weak, narrow minded, bullshit sauce.

Apr 29 nullbull commented on Here's Video of a Man Confronting an Awful Boston Marathon Bombing Truther.

@6 - to make an ass hat squirm, you have to speak ass hat.

Mar 26 nullbull commented on Driver Who Hit Four Pedestrians Blew Nearly Three Times Over Legal Alcohol Limit, Say Prosecutors.

We either have a system that tries to fix people or we should just start making soylent green out of our prison population. This situational, self-righteous revenge boner that people get in cases like this does not make the world a better, safer, or saner place. Laws are already tough, but shitty people are going to do fucking horrendously shitty things to others in society and we need to ask ourselves whether we fix that problem, or whether we pay $50K a year to allow this guy to waste what's left of his life, while kids go hungry, people can't afford school, K-12 is chronically underfunded, millions lack health care, etc. Sorry if that's a shitty choice, but that's the choice. Fix him, or dump $50k a year into a hole until he rots. Rapists can rot. Pre meditated murderers, rot. Drunks? Where is the line where we say we're going to try to rehabilitate people?

Mar 21 nullbull commented on Eyman Campaign Under Investigation.

There's always the temptation with Eyman to turn him into some kind of Svengali or savvy, diabolical political operator, but here's the thing: I think he's just a dim bulb. He's not well informed, he doesn't do research, and he's really just picking things that sound good and are easy to market to people.

My money's on him not even really knowing a bad thing was happening. The dude can barely write an initiative that's constitutional. I don't think he really knows what he's doing. What assume malicious intent when incompetence is a perfectly good explanation.

Feb 25 nullbull commented on $500,000 Will Get You Access to President Obama, White House Press Secretary Awkwardly Confirms.

Is this the same press corps that barely covers all the money-drenched, glad-handing, influence peddling fundraisers that members of Congress spend more time in than they do actually WORKING in CONGRESS?

Give me a fucking break. The Washington Press Corps should all be put on ritalin and forced to spend 2 minutes reading a book for every minute they spend on Twitter.

Feb 16 nullbull commented on Charles Krafft Is a White Nationalist Who Believes the Holocaust Is a Deliberately Exaggerated Myth.

Permit me to reply to the racism with ageism. Maybe he's just old... Desperate to be relevant, and playing the role of crank as a natural part of some kind of slow, relatively high-functioning dementia. Mini strokes, Alzheimer's, etc can all manifest this way. Add in the pre-existing seed of anti-political correctness and bam - crackpot cocktail.

Jan 29 nullbull commented on Where'd All the Best Friends Go?.

Confiding requires vulnerability. That's the hard part. If everyone allowed themselves to be vulnerable more, I think people would find more confidants. The culture of always happy is worn, plastic, and tattered. I find people are more real today (perhaps counterintuitively, given pop culture) than they every have been. Maybe I'm just lucky. The ability to truly trust is more of a problem than finding trustworthy people.