Well benj, we like you: you seem to be the kind of lefty that can thrive in a Belmont thread (many of us are ex-leftys that still feel like leftys); so far you don’t seem to be infected with Koz Kidz-itis…just please don’t start talking about melting points of iron girders inside the collapsed World Trade Towers I & II…

What gets me about our ex-police chief Kirlikowski is that, say, after, say, the 5th black teen is murdered wouldn’t you start to go a little crazy? I would, if I were the police chief; I would be screaming for the national guard, I would be posting cops in schools, I would be calling for meetings with every black pastor in central and south Seattle, I would pay kids to turn in guns, I would call out the parents, I would call on national stars, Michael Jordan or Oprah or J-Z or whoever to come to town to talk to kids; forget budgets and protocol – kids are dying; I would have staged a rally with corporate money at one of our stadiums (Saefco field); in short: DO EVERYTHING SO THAT BLACK KID #6 IS NOT NEXT.

Instead we got dead black kid #6, #7, #8,#9, #10, #11…because Seattle is an Oprah city wrapped in NPR blinders…as long as we wear earth shoes and buy local produce we’re O so righteous…who cares about a bunch of dead black kids…..

AAAHHHHHHHAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!