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• Commented on Man Fatally Struck by Train at McPherson Square Metro
  Dcist editors, As you know, it is irresponsible journalistic practice to report on suicides in this way (http://www.sprc.org/library/sreporting.pdf). You know that it contributes to contagion and in the long run makes the problem worse. Over the last year the language...
• Commented on Morning Roundup: Remembering Oscar Fuentes Edition
  No I don't. Metro riders deserve to know how long they are going to be delayed. They don't report when there is a heart attack or what exactly the mechanical failure was. Why should psychiatric medical emergencies be different? And,...
• Commented on Metro Service No Tea Party for Some Protesters
  How to get DCist commenters to stop complaining about weekend metro delays: have their ideological opposites complain about weekend metro delays....
• Commented on Go Home Already: Magic Hour
  They can name the park after his father, then....
• Commented on Person Killed After Being Struck By Metro Train at Forest Glen
  Knew what I meant though, didn't you? Suicide is many things and one of them is a violent act. It has victims. There's no need for name-calling. I'm not some asshole making simplistic moral judgments of suffering people. I'm an...