No Slog AM today?
Poo.

No one expects the sadistic, abusive, destructive Republinazis to compromise, show mercy, or talk to anyone else ever.

It’s like some kind of coded language telling sane, decent people to give the hate-crazed, fascist submorons everything they demand.

Washington is a great place to live largely because we’ve defeated the sociopathic Republinazi menace, Luis.

RepubliKKKans, including their sock puppets Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema, their fixers, lawyers, lobbyists, trophy bitches and bimbos, snotnosed heirs, and most hopelessly MAGA-stupefied of anti-vaxxer rubes are useless toxic waste that should be fired one way into outer space To Serve Man, never to return to what's left of the Earth and remaining inhabitants!
Rod Serling nailed it. Here's hoping that aliens have a craving for filthy, putrid GOP porkfat and gristle. They would be getting a shitload of it coming their way.

The entire RepubliKKKan Party of Orange Turd has entered a dimension...one of sight, one of sound, and one of mind. A once stable political caucus has turned, after the Err of Donald Trump into a pack of bloodthirsty rabid dogs hellbent on destroying the world through lies, willful misinformation, their own self-interests, corruption, and insatiable greed all for wont of the last dollar.
The entire RepubliKKKan Party has most definitely and disturbingly entered....The Twilight Zone!

@1, I found it right where it belongs on the Slog scroll: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2021/10/22/62183332/slog-am-more-rain-is-coming-alec-baldwin-killed-a-person-with-a-prop-gun-on-the-set-of-a-western-about-an-accidental-killing-four-shot-dead

@4= Thanks! I looked all through there and could not find it...twice. I must be going blind or something. I see I missed the Alec Baldwin discussion. Drat.

Luis, THE REASON that Washington IS a relieving place for you to move is BECAUSE (some) DEMS IN THIS STATE HAVENT COMPLETELY GIVEN IN TO THAT BULLSHIT BIPARTISAN BOTH-SIDES-HAVE-EQUAL-MERIT PROPAGANDA (yet!) (sorry a little bit but not genuinely for yelling!)

Luis. Please, please just shut the fuck up and let the progressives in this city get just a few things done, so we have at least some decent programs and policy in place to tide over our community during the next (hopefully not inevitable, hopefully at least years away) surge of conservative “centrist” voters motivated by the likes of YOU and your new ST editorial cronies.

LUIS!!!! please pretty please do not reproduce your failed double standard creepy fake centrist proselytizing in Seattle, it very clearly did not work out well for the state you are able to escape and joke about (unlike everyone in TX who can’t just up and move). There are plenty of non culture-war related things for you to cultivated overly descriptive and weirdly entrenched opinions about here, how about seafood or ferry delays or hell even if you could just confine yourself to one (1) annoying but infinitely less harmless boomer topic (complaining about graffiti? That would be a classic for you!) I wouldn’t be mad.

Alec Baldwin should be convicted of manslaughter. Seriously. Drunk drivers who kill pedestrians are. Baldwin was drunk with arrogance and stupidity, took a real gun with a real bullet, didn't even bother to check the chamber, and fired deliberately at his target and killed his victim and wounded another. In addition, he's a lousy actor.

The crew had to stay in Albuquerque (too cheap to pay for lodging in Santa Fe) and had to drive 50 miles to make 6:30am calls.

Version of events that seems to be emerging would seem to clear Baldwin of wrong doing. It's not his responsibility to verify if a chambered round is live and I'm not even sure there's any method for doing so? (apparently it was the Assistant Director's job and they informed him it was blank.) I don't know details and honestly don't have any skin in the game, though it certainly is an odd and sad situation.

Anyway, I'm mostly commenting to inquire if he actually IS a decent actor/person? I loved him in 30 Rock, but honestly I don't know that his acting really stood out all that much. That show's writing was just freaking brilliant. Really ages well too, as I was recently getting back into it on Hulu and it was pretty much just as funny as I remember it. Only other thing I'm even aware of his doing is Trump for SNL, which was also funny, but also not maybe so much testament to him, as it was/is to the unabashed idiot he was mocking. Said idiot just has such bizarre and idiosyncratic mannerisms that any over-the-top attempts to re-create them probably have a decent chance of landing, which Baldwin's did. I know he had a long and distinguished Hollywood career before either of those roles, but I guess I'm not super into cinema or whatever else he was doing and so really have no other frame for judgment.

@8 - Yeah, apparently industry regulations say it's the prop manager or armor's job to verify the gun is safe to use. But Murphy's law is in full force between the time such declarations are made and the triggers are pulled.

Agreed auntie grizelda, the Seattle Times editorial board, including this new breed of Nazi sympathizer should be fed to hungry aliens.

Luis Carrasco sounds like a closet Trumper and should be repeatedly cornholed.

Leave it to these denizens of Moose Lodge 101 to go after The Stranger, when they serve up some of the most ridiculous editorials on earth, and even endorsed George Bush for President (the one that looks like Howdy Doody).

They continually pollute the progressive political dialogue with endorsements for conservatives and middle-roaders like Dow Constantine and Reagan Dunne, when we need fresh, young, intelligent leadership like Gonzales and Sawant, not to mention the worthwhile Port recommendations from The Stranger like Calkins, Mohamed and Hasegawa.

Apparently, the Times has recruited another wishy-washy Pat Boone Respublika from the great state of Texas to add to our misery, and further verify that The Stranger is the last real newspaper in Seattle.

Everything is politicized to a fever pitch these days. Councilmember Dembowski was probably having a bad day and called someone a twat. It happens, get over it.

Even that construction worker who felt racially maligned was being overly sensitive, and the union found no wrongdoing.

Everyone get back to work and get stuff done.

We’ve got supply chain issues to manage.

Also, take The Stranger’s advice and vote for Dembowski, who’s on board with electric transit, a $1-2 billion climate bond measure and crucial greenspace conservation.

The opponent sounds like an erstwhile Trekkie and should be properly avoided.

True, there is no shortage of hot air and jawboning in Olympia. Let’s stop dithering and create more progressive taxation to address these crises of drug addiction and homelessness, not to mention single-payer health insurance so the health of our citizenry doesn’t go lacking.

The Biden $1 trillion-plus deal sounds promising and moves the country in a more compassionate direction, after the hairy green-orange Trumpazoid doldrums that produced the astounding Biden-Harris electoral stampede.

Unfortunate that these deadly mishaps on movie sets keep reoccurring.

There was the Jon-Erik Hexum and Brandon Lee tragedies, and now this horrific event.
Everyone do their job and make sure there is no live ammo in the firearm,
although as Rich Smith points out, everything is rush-rush these days and trying to save a buck and people pay with their lives and careers.

These gun-blasts can be added digitally, although that costs bucks and time, but look what happened. We lost a gifted young cinematographer and a well-known actor almost unintentionally killed his director.

This certainly rivals the Vic Morrow accidental death, which tanked the career of director John Landis.

Everyone is trying to squeeze the piss out of a buffalo nickel and gifted people are paying for it with their lives.

No telling what this crisis will do to Alec Baldwin’s career and mental health.

Nevertheless, I do feel sorry for Alec Baldwin. It wasn't unintentional. He will forever be tormented.

*was

@8

I don't know that I have seen a great range like maybe Tom Hanks has, so the idea of him playing a character who fires a gun seems weird, even though he probably did that Red October move, but there's nothing wrong with him as an actor.

As to whether he's a decent person, it seems like he must be okay, since SNL kept having him back, and I presume they would not if he was hard to work with.

Anyway, that new Seattle Times guy sounds like someone raindrop would fellate, so congratulations on their new hire.

The Seattle Times continued smear campaign against progressives, any leftists and more
has led to their recent giant, seriously contemptible, slander of Kennedy. Kennedy the Kennedy running for the city of Seattle Attorney.

Nothing is too low for them to protect the status quo and the elite.

Kennedy dares to challenged the brutal legal system that grinds the poor into the dirt. They cannot stand for it,

@15: I'd be drowning in sequential Maker's Marks too if I was a NTK supporter.

@8/9:

While it's certainly the armorer's responsibility to check a weapon and verify its status before handing it off to an actor (if the weapon is "practical", that is, one capable of holding live rounds of any type, then protocol dictates a certified armorer be in charge of this, and not a properties master, who should only handle non-functional weapons - and an AD should NEVER, under any circumstances, be the one doing this), it's also the actor's responsibility to confirm that status. Usually, this is done by having the actor present when the weapon is checked, so they can visually verify it is either unloaded (cold) or loaded (hot) and with what, and that the barrel is clear of debris or obstructions, if it's not already "plugged". The armorer then hands the weapon directly to the actor, not to another production person. When the scene is wrapped, the actor is then supposed to return the weapon directly to the armorer, unless the script calls for them to leave the weapon on-set or it is otherwise taken by another actor during the scene, in which case they return it to the armorer.

These protocols have been in-effect for many years, so far as I'm aware, going back at least to Brandon Lee's tragic accidental death in 1993. There is simply no excuse for what happened, and although it's still early in the investigation, it's becoming increasingly clear that these very strict protocols were blatantly ignored by a number of people, including Baldwin himself, all of whom share some culpability for this tragic - and completely unnecessary - loss of life.