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May 13 pheeeew!crack!boom! commented on Senator's Illness Gives Dems Chance to Seize Back Control of State Senate; Fate of Reproductive Parity and State Dream Acts Hangs in the Balance.

@11: I'm seconding #13. Much though it might suit his campaign to late-breakingly portray him as you have here, Mike McGinn was a loser, is a loser, and would continue to be a loser if this city made the mistake of reelecting him. It's time for some leadership with some chutzpah. Ed Murray's got an opportunity to prove that's him right here. If he does, I'd say it's gonna sting like hell for Mike McGinn come November. Here's hoping, anyway.

Apr 25 pheeeew!crack!boom! commented on Opt Out of Yellow Page Deliveries by May 6!.

What the fuck is this "we demand you give us a valid email address and telephone number" shit? THAT'S the deal the city struck? "We'll honor your opt-out rules, Seattle, as long as you funnel all your folks into our industry-run email gathering system so instead of dropping 80 pounds of paper off, we can spam-box the fuck out of your citizens."

Fuck you, advertising that funds no useful or interesting content. Fuck you so hard. Do you think I'm stupid? You don't need me to register an account with a confirmed email address in order to process my request that you stop leaving your litter on my doorstep. No you don't.

Apr 5 pheeeew!crack!boom! commented on Fox News Defends President Obama By Announcing That Uppity Feminists Should Just Relax a Little.

So it's on the record, I am a liberal who agrees that folks on the far left are generally overly uptight, moralistic, and sensitive. Their kingdom to be outraged, just outraged, at something. At some point its less about politics or justice, and more about an inability to feel content unless there's someone or something to seethe about. It's what makes the organized social justice movement so ineffective... so many people in it are so damned angry all the time.

Apr 2 pheeeew!crack!boom! commented on Seahawks Say They Are Fine With Player's Anti-Gay Comments.

You know, Clemons, who's really making this about themselves over the team, here? If someone on the 'Hawks came out, your responsibility to them as a teammate is to respect that decision and do whatever it takes to persevere as a team, not badger them back into the closet because it makes you uncomfortable. That's what being a member of a team is about; you stand by your teammates, and you kick the shit (y'know, with your words, or whatever) out of whoever's got shady nonsense to say about them.

Mar 24 pheeeew!crack!boom! commented on Gaythiests.

Yeah, I'm an atheist, and gay, and if people like Blake Gallagher want to congregate around that, I think it's great! But, then, I also think that if people want to congregate around God or whatever, that's cool too. I can object to religion's influence on the world without begrudging people-in-particular their faith, traditions, or practices. There're lots of progressive Christians, and I don't think it's worthwhile to throw them under the bus when they not only stand to help us gain politically... but also stand to provide the sort of diverse viewpoint and thinking that makes the world go 'round.

Down with conservative Christianity's influence on science and policymaking, sure. But, man, if people wanna go to Church because it makes them feel better on their place in the world? Who are any of us assholes to take that away from them? Assholes, that's who. Being Christian is a choice... but I'm pro-choice, and I say let them eat Christ.

Mar 22 pheeeew!crack!boom! commented on The Story of How I Was Detained and Almost Arrested This Afternoon.

@1: You get that The Stranger is a bonafide business that also produces a print newspaper and has an actual office right on Capitol Hill, and a paid staff of people who investigate their stories and then write about them, and management and stuff, right? It's not just, like, an online "web log" (you're kidding me with that terminology, right?) with a bunch of amateurs sitting in their underwear in their homes jerking off between opinion postings.

Mar 7 pheeeew!crack!boom! commented on Center School Students, Alumni, Parents Testify at Packed School Board Meeting, Board Members Signal Support of Controversial Curriculum.

@8: Wins all the internets for the rest of the week. Seattle: So much oxygen sucked, so little actually accomplished.

Jan 24 pheeeew!crack!boom! commented on Remember When the Chihuly Museum Promised to Build a Playground for the Kiddies?.

@3: Glass, appropriately engineered, could actually be a really cool medium for a playground. You can build some remarkably durable, safe structures out of glass if you know what you're doing. You can go stand out on a plate of glass suspended from the side of a building 1,353 feet in the air in Chicago... hundreds of thousands of people do it every year with no ill consequences (except, perhaps, some vertigo-induced puking). I see no reason they could not come up with some clever uses for glass in the playground they're supposed to pay for.

Here's hoping, for everyone's sake, they hold up their end of the bargain or I imagine there'll be some folks finding new ways to use good-old fashioned building materials like, say, bricks, here in our public space-aware little burg...

Jan 14 pheeeew!crack!boom! commented on Such Nice Dogs.

Frankly, I'd rather have a pitbull running around than one more whining, screaming human toddler. At least the pitbull will guard my house. Fat lotta good a drooling three year old is if some "bad guy with a gun" breaks in...

Jan 4 pheeeew!crack!boom! commented on "She is so raped. Her puss is about as dry as the sun right now.".

@68: Painting with so broad a brush risks alienating potential allies. Yeah, you have to acknowledge where your allies are at in the discussion if you want them to get on board with what you're saying. Sorry. That's just the way it works. You don't get to just demand things of innocent, uninvolved people... and you certainly aren't going to be very compelling if you're dragging people into being blamed for the crimes of other people by making them party to some imagined "rape culture". You can be pissed, or you can be effective. Up to you, and no sweat off my ass, either way.