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• Commented on Lanier: Fuentes Killing Not Gang Related
  Oh, the problem is an evil landlord who failed to fix the lock. Phew! For a second, I thought their might be profound, intractable social problems underlying this crime. Glad it can just be attributed to one easily demonized target...
• Commented on Go Home Already: Taking the Piss
  OK, I officially don't get the headline. "Taking the piss" was never my favorite Australianism anyway (though possibly the most disturbing)....
• Commented on Send an Intern With the Official State Camera
  We Americans are so habituated to our culture of politics-by-publicity-stunt that this article is incomprehensible to us; it's like a fish reading an article about water. The point of the article is that these solemn VIP disaster-area fly-overs are worthless...
• Commented on WTOP: Fenty Using Police Escort for Cycling Team Rides
  Compare and contrast with London mayor Boris Johnson. Fenty abuses his police protection; Boris Johnson is the police protection....
• Commented on Go Home Already: Senselessness
  13 soldiers dead in Texas is a "horrific outburst of violence" that sends the nation into mourning. Dozens of soldiers killed in Afghanistan last month? Not so much. And 100 Afghan civilians dead in an airstrike is ... nothing. We...