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Ah, so you're just being disingenuous, then, not undertrained. Noted.
Posted by robotslave]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 23:14:15 -0700 The Stranger Posted by brix]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 23:12:59 -0700 The Stranger
As I said a while back, the importance of this is to aggregate these incidents so we have a better concept of the scale of the problem.

Similarly suicide (any method) is twice as common as homicide (any method) in the US, but you'd never guess that because it doesn't garner much attention.
Posted by Chris Jury]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 23:08:02 -0700 The Stranger Posted by floater]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 23:06:17 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Mattini]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 23:03:45 -0700 The Stranger
That quote is frightening. The police are basically saying anybody who is present at a protest, whether or not they're engaging in ass-hattery, is fair game. And before anybody points out that the solution is just to avoid angry/destructive protests...there are *always* assholes.

Also I'm not surprised the supposed anarchists are disadvantaged, angry youth...they're exactly the kind of people who feel like they have nothing to lose by destroying shit. They doesn't justify destroying shit though.
Posted by KatTheCanuckistan]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 23:00:02 -0700 The Stranger
I covered riots in Haiti in 2011 where demonstrators showered bricks and rocks down on Brazilian UN peacekeepers, who responded with massive but perfectly proportionate amounts of tear gas and rubber bullets. I was in the thick of it and knew full well I could be hit by either side. May Day was nothing compared to that.

There's a difference between that and when a nervous Jordanian peacekeeper pulled his gun on peaceful protesters and pointed it straight at me. He's the one that needed training, not me. Likewise, cops who angrily swat at a middle fingers and then pepper spray anyone in the vicinity, including reporters, need training not to do that, instead of excuses for their reckless behavior.
Posted by Unpaid Intern]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 22:53:44 -0700 The Stranger
Maybe the young man is a leach in training but there is a much more likely explanation. This seems far too powerful reaction to teenagers grinding. More likely it finally occurred to her what an earlier trauma was all about and she projected 100% of that rage onto a 14 year old boy.

She should find someone to help sort this all out and only then should she seek an apology from her erstwhile paramour.
Posted by sympatheticinseattle]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 22:49:57 -0700 The Stranger
I don't think the intern here is stupid so much as woefully undertrained.

Before covering unpermitted marches, the new hires need to be sat down with a senior reporter and/or legal rep and told in very clear language that a plastic-coated bit of cardboard with the word "Press" on it does not impart special extralegal status, and that the privileges a cub reporter might naively associate with that beguiling physical totem will, when they actually exist at all, derive entirely and exclusively from prior meetings and agreements with event planners and police representatives.

Which will of course not exist, if the event happens to be of the sort which the organizers are not inclined to announce in advance.
Posted by robotslave]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 22:40:05 -0700 The Stranger
Not to say this isn't bad news, but if DOMA goes down, it will be irrelevant whether this provision was included in the bill.

Only a month now til we find out.
Posted by ForkyMcSpoon]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 22:28:25 -0700 The Stranger Posted by johnnie]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 22:26:13 -0700 The Stranger Utah is the epitome of Simpson's paradox when it comes to data.

Also - UEA is pretty pathetic. They do very little to support their teachers aside from throwing out a few quotes when something related to education goes on. Yet another reason why teachers aren't paid jack shit in Utah.....
Posted by StuckInUtah]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 22:25:13 -0700 The Stranger
I sometimes will use for rags in the garage.. or I like the suggestion to use in the dog bed!!
Posted by johnjacobjingleheimerschmidt]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 22:23:34 -0700 The Stranger Posted by lauramae]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 22:15:17 -0700 The Stranger Posted by smade]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 22:13:06 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Greenwood]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 22:05:19 -0700 The Stranger Posted by gnatw]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 22:05:17 -0700 The Stranger Posted by WFM]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 22:03:06 -0700 The Stranger Posted by wisepunk]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 22:02:16 -0700 The Stranger
On the bright side you bring to word many arguments I have struggled to properly explain to justify my position against irresponsible gun ownership and I thank you for it.
Posted by FiveWivesWasser]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 22:01:32 -0700 The Stranger Posted by ScrawnyKayaker]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 21:58:12 -0700 The Stranger
Thanks though, for educating me on the level of safety my gun confers. Your deeply entrenched pseudo-intellectual bias and probable lack of real world experience in this area is very convincing to a plebeian casual gun owner like myself.

Before reading your Op/Ed I was foolishly convinced that people who store and handle guns irresponsibly, particularly when there are children present, are somehow PERSONALLY responsible for the results of their actions. Now I understand that the millions of people who are capable of owning a gun without harming themselves or their loved ones, people like myself who do not see these inanimate objects as inherently evil, WE are the real boogeymen. Well, us and those scary self-possessed murder-machines of course. Great work as usual, Goldy, for depolarizing the issue so that gun owners and gun abstainers can have a civil conversation about this topic.

Posted by HistoryGetsWeird]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 21:58:00 -0700 The Stranger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXfHLUl…
Posted by pindy]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 21:53:30 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Ernie1]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 21:48:53 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Phantom]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 21:48:43 -0700 The Stranger