A police spokesman says the man was suspected of robbery. In video taken by a bystander, he clearly is struggling with officers and resisting arrest. The spokesman says the man tried to grab an officer’s gun, and that’s why they shot him. But the civilian witness who recorded the inciden[...]
Archive for March 2nd, 2015
March 2nd, 2015 - 11:41 am § in The Ave Scene
Impossible? … The Seattle Public Library fitting on a thumbnail clipping?
SanDisk Squeezes 200GB Into a Tiny microSD Card Stop for a second and take a look at the fingernail on your baby finger. That’s roughly the size of a microSD card that can now hold a whopping 200GB of data thanks to SanDisk. Remember when USB flash drives with a full gigabyte of storage were [[...]
Radical Republicans: Inhofe
Faith-based reasoning is intrinsically anti-science: U.S. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., is a staunch critic of climate science and in line to become one of America’s most powerful voices on environmental policies. Inhofe is expected to chair the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works[...]
March 2nd, 2015 - 9:38 am § in Politics
Fun and games in Moscow
Official Russian sources claim there’s no video of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov’s assassination because the security cameras weren’t working on one of Moscow’s most closely watched streets. Raise your hands if you believe that. Next, raise your hands if you think Putin did[...]
March 2nd, 2015 - 9:38 am § in The Ave Scene
The Stranger Morphs Into ?????
David Goldstein on FACEBOOK Some rich people collect art. Others, cars. But Nick Hanauer is ostentatiously collecting ex-Stranger writers: http://horsesass.org/paul-constant-ascends-to-the-heavens/ Paul Constant Ascends to the Heavens Most 1 percenters just don’t know what to do with all thei[...]
March 2nd, 2015 - 9:14 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
Former Mossad Head Meir Dagan on Netanyahu:
HAARETZ: ” As someone who has served Israel in various security capacities for 45 years, including during the country’s most difficult hours, I feel that we are now at a critical point regarding our existence and our security,” Netanyahu’s policies are “destructive to[...]
March 2nd, 2015 - 4:07 am § in Misc.
BRA fitting
Ed. I hope (and think) this is in good taste. If nothing else it will give my gender a better idea of how the other half lives. [...]
Be Afraid, Very Afraid, The Clowns Are Back!
The BBC reports that social networks have been awash with chatter about “evil clowns” after a number of recent incidents in France. The subject is among the top trending topics on the social platform Reddit. On Saturday, police in Agde arrested 14 teenagers who were dressed as clowns [...]
Commentary by Charley: Debating middle class values for African Americans
All of the Black people with Shelby Steele’s philosophy are well off and try to make it look like they had some magic bullet that made them successful, other than a life time of apologizing for racism. Coates nailed his lame old conversation to the wall. Ta-Nehisi Coates Completely Shuts Down [...]