She phoned me at home last night. Wanted to talk about her husband again. The wife was there so I had to take it in the other room. “Look, I can’t talk right now,” I said. “And I thought I told you never to call me here . . .”[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Commentary by David Preston’
November 3rd, 2016 - 11:52 am § in Misc.
Preston on Bundy
Bad verdict. Not only was the jury wrong on the law, their decision is a blow to the very RULE of law. Extremists of all stripes will take this as a green light to pick and choose which laws to obey. All they have to do to get away with it is convince a jury […][...]
September 11th, 2016 - 7:46 am § in Misc., The Ave Scene
David Preston: Under the Bridge
. This muh man, Lantz. He lives under a bridge somewhere in Seattle. Which bridge? Doesn’t matter, does it? Could be any bridge, really. We got hundreds of ’em. . Lantz is treasurer of an organization that’s gotten millions of dollars in grants from Seattle over the years. Or at le[...]
May 17th, 2016 - 1:26 am § in Misc.
DAVID PRESTON ASKS: Are There “Transgender Children” ?
David Preston Last Friday President Obama issued a sweeping decree directing public schools to let students choose which bathroom they’ll use (boys or girls) based on whatever gender they declare themselves to be. You can argue that gender identity is more complicated than just picking a gende[...]
May 5th, 2016 - 5:40 pm § in Misc.
Buying and Selling Houses
David Preston Crackerbox house in my neighborhood. 1200 sq feet in the main building, plus another room attached to the garage. Boring design. No-frills remo. . Sold for $525,000 during the open house. Probably more if it sold that fast. . This is nuts. If I had to re-purchase the house I’m li[...]
Troy Kelley
Here’s a piece I posted on my personal blog. I would’ve copied it here, but it’s longish. It’s a psychological profile of a local Washington politician who manipulated the legal system, the press and the voters to get himself elected and then keep himself at the center of at[...]
December 27th, 2015 - 7:39 pm § in Misc.
So I have to say I’ll kill you
David Preston So I have to say I’ll kill you . . . in a song: The fine art of threatening to blow someone’s head off. Here’s an example of screwed-up people trying to drag others into their quagmire of moral confusion. A high school student in Mississippi was suspended after he r[...]
December 23rd, 2015 - 10:51 pm § in Misc.
Photography
Migrants, who were found at sea on a boat, collect rainwater during a storm at a temporary refugee camp near Maungdaw, northern Rakhine state, Myanmar Picture: REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun[...]
David Gets a Call!
She phoned me at home last night. Wanted to talk about her husband again. The wife was there so I had to take it in the other room. “Look, I can’t talk right now,” I said. “And I thought I told you never to call me here . . .”[...]