Tom Carr is such a DICK. You can sugar-coat it all you like, but it seems to me after years of observation that his primary motivating psycho-social personality characteristic is that he's just a DICK, plain and simple. Usually people are a DICK for a reason, but in Carr's case I believe that being a DICK is what drives him and gives him satisfaction. In specific, being a DICK to people less well off than he is. The only reason that he's even in this town is because, in general, we're *not* dicks. This makes Tom Carr's DICKish behavior stand out all the more, which is, as I said, what gives him satisfaction.

God, I bet he reads this and gets all red and flushed like he does when he's about to be trashed in public. But I bet his staff will read this and laugh and say, jesus, what a DICK!

I have an issue with your contrasting of Carr’s approach and Satterberg’s approach to drug cases.

The problem is that you are comparing two prosecutors who are working within two different organizational systems. Satterberg has two levels of court to work with – the Superior Court, which can handle felonies, and the District Court, which cannot. Because of this, he can send his felony drug cases from Superior Court down to the lower court to be treated as gross misdemeanors and misdemeanors.

In contrast, Carr only has one court system – the Seattle Municipal Court. This is the equivalent of King County District Court, in that it too only handles gross misdemeanors and misdemeanors. Carr, unlike Satterberg, has no lower court to “divert” his drug cases to.

When you compare equivalent levels – district court and municipal court, the contrast between the two begins to fail. Nowhere did I see in your article that once Satterberg has sent a drug case to District Court, it is going to be dismissed. It is going to be prosecuted as non-felony drug case, the same thing Carr is going to do in his own court system.

Bob Marley said weed is an herb, not a drug. John Sinclair said it's a euphoriant, not a narcotic. Weed aids inspiration and free thinking. Obama and Palin smoked it, so back off on classist enforcement.