Thanks, 4chan, for identifying the bombers before the News industry folks.

Cool video, Jen. Thanks.

Jen - why are you linking to the Seattle Times Elwha story behind a pay wall? I thought the Stranger's position was that their news is not worth paying for. I certainly haven't, and thus couldn't read the article you linked to. Have you?

I thought this was a glass harmonica... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XPfoFZYs…

The others are just...glasses?

I really hope this time we don't play any games with NK. No special envoy to beg they play nice. No oil or food shipments. Stop the fucking games. It's gone on too long and gotten us nowhere. Let them stew in their shit.

@4 - Are you calling Beverly Sills a liar?

I too enjoyed the music nerd video very much.

Similarly enjoyable: Gnarls Barkley on the Theremin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW0B1sipL…

The NRA does not have near enough funds to buy off the Senate.

They fear losing the singe-issue votes of conservatives, moderates, and even some liberals who are gun enthusiasts. This fear is unfounded, but facts will not sway congress.

Also, I would wager most of the GOP is just voting the opposite of whatever Obama wants, regardless of what it is.

Obama could propose erecting a statue of Jesus holding hands with Reagan in every public school and the GOP would vote it down out of spite.

I enjoy the Strangers Rand Paul ad against gun control.

Depressing news about new jobs going out to the suburbs. Maybe the people who live out there won't have to drive far to work? I thought jobs moving suburban was more or less a California thing. Several years ago I worked for a small company in Sherman Oaks, California. I didn't have very much money at all back then, and so I moved very nearby so I could walk to work. About a year-and-a-half later, the company wanted to expand and moved to Reseda, California - a good 5-7 miles farther west in the San Fernando Valley. I purchased an old run-down car that was just good enough to get me to work and back home (most of the time - never knew when it was going to break down). I missed being able to walk to work. It gave me about an hour or two extra of personal time a day. Two year later, the company announced it was moving to a larger facility in Thousand Oaks - all the way to Ventura County (another 25 miles away). They announced it like it was no big thing, too, which was annoying. They certainly weren't paying me enough to buy a new car, and even if they would have done, would I have wanted to deal with the Ventura Freeway twice a day? It would have been more than an hour's commute each way. It was enough to make me look for work elsewhere.

The point is - if this is a trend, if jobs are going out to the suburbs, people will have to move out there, or become unemployed, or find a new job (hey, good luck!), or worst choice of all, spend four or five hours on a bus each day.

Like I said, it a depressing, sad trend for those who need to work and don't have a lot of money or transportation.

@1, 4chan hasn't identified shit.

They've circled some guys with backpacks on a few pictures. That's not identification -- especially since at least two of the circled people are clearly innocent. One of the "guys bending down to place a backpack" is clearly a woman tending to a baby in a stroller -- you can see the damn baby. Another guy, "blue jacket guy" (not to be confused with "blue robe guy", who is wearing a fleece jacket, not a robe), has been outed on Facebook and is being hounded by internet vigilantes, even though he didn't do anything.

Picture-hunting is fun but as usual it's gone way too far.

@11 - I hear police are looking for a guy in a red-and-white striped sweater and stocking cap with a cane and glasses. 4chan should be on the lookout for that guy.

@1, read this and see how fabulously internet sleuthing is working out: http://deadspin.com/the-boston-bombing-w…

@6 - She does have that meth induced twinkle in her eye.

@10: A lot of the working poor are living out in the far suburbs these days, where rents are affordable. Cheaper and easier to commute there than into Seattle.

@14 - I officially declare the pointless, bitter Slog fight of the day to be about Beverly Sills.

You son of a bitch.

Throwaway gem: Sills cracks at one point that she and the flutist "always finished together—always."

I've seen a glass harmonica played, and it looked nothing like that. It was a series of progressively sized curved glass bowls on a horizontal spindle. The musician wets her fingers and rubs the edges of the bowls.

@4, 18 - It looks like Wikipedia would agree with you. What the video shows is technically a glass harp, but the difference appears to be little more than the arrangement of the glasses and the source of the circular motion (being either the finger moving in circles or the glass itself).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_harm…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_harp

15: Yes, rents are cheaper out in the suburbs - but they aren't cheap anymore. Additionally, living out there - where the market is 5 miles away and everywhere you need to go requires a ride, and where bus service is usually severely lacking (because everyone else has a car), moving closer to work only helps getting to work. You'll still probably need a car if you need to get somewhere in a timely manner. Hell, many suburbs don't even bother with sidewalks.

@15 -- the problem with your theory (the working poor live out in the suburbs, so it's cheaper for them to commute to other places in the suburbs) is that it presumes the working poor live in the particular suburb that they need to commute to for work. Driving 10 miles is driving 10 miles. In my experience, you have to get downright rural, not suburban, before the 10 miles is any better because there's less traffic. And you have to get pretty urban before the 10 miles is any better because you can take public transit.