Slog - Comments on That Nightlife Isn't Gonna Crack Down On Itself http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on The city's looking to fill the new position of "Nightlife Regulatory Coordinator," answering to the mayor. According to the job description, the regulatory coordinator would "Design and implement a comprehensive regulatory program regarding nightlife establishments in the City of Seattle ... recommend and defend a structure and processes that will improve/enhance regulatory efforts across the City... Coordinate the activities of the Joint Enforcement Team [more about those bad boys here]" and "Monitor liquor license applications and renewals ... recommend non-renewal when circumstances exist that suggest that the establishment does not operate in a safe manner or comply with City and... Copyright 2008 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:15:31 -0800 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:41:23 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by tiffany shitbirds!!!1!

]]> tiffany http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039060 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039060 City Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:18:35 -0800 Comment by Bon Scott That salary range seems low to me. I wouldn't want to do that job for just that much.

]]> Bon Scott http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039062 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039062 City Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:20:38 -0800 Comment by bearseatbeats quickest dupe in the west.

]]> bearseatbeats http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039064 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039064 City Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:22:29 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave im applying.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039077 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039077 City Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:26:33 -0800 Comment by COMTE True, @2 - I'd need a lot more than $101,150 before I'd consider putting myself on Hizzoner's leash.

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039083 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039083 City Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:28:34 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle It's a shame the city council is so gutless they rubberstamp these things.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039108 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039108 City Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:44:31 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Are you kidding? $110K, and you'll never have to buy another drink. Probably women, too. I can't wait for the inevitable scandal.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039110 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039110 City Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:45:10 -0800 Comment by Milton Friedman Actually, we're not technically in a recession yet. A recession requires two quarters of negative change in GDP in one fiscal year. Last quarter had a positive gain of 0.9%, so it's impossible to be in a recession yet.

]]> Milton Friedman http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039114 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039114 City Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:46:50 -0800 Comment by Original Monique You forget about all the kick-backs. That job could net a million easy.

]]> Original Monique http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039119 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039119 City Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:49:43 -0800 Comment by bobcat ya mon, dat joint team be one badass smokin' group against i and i

]]> bobcat http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039123 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039123 City Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:52:02 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave milton friedman, that is merely one definition of recession by one group off people

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039126 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039126 City Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:54:47 -0800 Comment by leek Wise choice of deletion; this post's title was funnier than Savage's.

]]> leek http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039171 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039171 City Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:23:00 -0800 Comment by Bon Scott Well shit, maybe I'm suited for the job as I hadn't even thought of things like kickbacks, girls, drinks, etc. I'd have just put the salary in a 401k and lived the same meager life I do now.

All I know is that if I was reporting to the mayor, I'd want more then what my middle-manager boss makes (probably at the upper end of that scale).

]]> Bon Scott http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039185 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039185 City Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:29:14 -0800 Comment by Bison @8

Yours is a commonly held opinion, but it isn't strictly true. The NBER is responsible for determining whether we are officially in a recession or not, and their methodology is a bit more nuanced than that:

http://www.nber.org/cycles/recessions.html

]]> Bison http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039194 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039194 City Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:32:38 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Milt, the definition of things like growth and unemployment has been jiggered to make it virtually impossible to make an official recession. That doesn't mean it's not happening.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039195 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039195 City Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:32:55 -0800 Comment by Seattle Crime Blogger "Milt, the definition of things like growth and unemployment has been jiggered to make it virtually impossible to make an official recession. That doesn't mean it's not happening."

Evidence, plz.

Oh, and $67,000 starting pay? That's really not much, all things considered. Certainly not deserving ECB's snide comment.

]]> Seattle Crime Blogger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039249 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039249 City Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:07:14 -0800 Comment by Fnarf http://harpers.org/archive/2008/05/0082023

Fuckhead.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039271 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039271 City Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:28:45 -0800 Comment by Seattle Crime Blogger Fuckhead.

Great to see you haven't lost that feisty liberal spirit, old friend. Way to stand by the "holier than thou" moralist attitude that we've all come to love so much from the free-spirited thinking crowd.

By the way, that article requires a subscription. Nice try.

]]> Seattle Crime Blogger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039275 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039275 City Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:34:06 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Here you go, asswipe:
http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2008/Pollyanna-Creep-Economy1may08.htm

My antipathy to you and your ilk has nothing to do with liberalism. I'm an economic realist, to the right of most Slog commenters. As you would know, if you could recognize a clue. But you can't, because you're a clue-proof libertarian fuckhead. Even your nickname screams pig-ignorant Ayn-Rand security guard weasel. Crime Blogger! Mall Ninja! Who are you really, Dwight Schrute?

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039287 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039287 City Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:47:35 -0800 Comment by Seattle Crime Blogger As you would know, if you could recognize a clue.

You mean if I spent 24 hours a day on SLOG. Thankfully I've got better things to do.

Not surprising that you wouldn't respect Ayn Rand, though. It requires a higher level of understanding to appreciate complete individual responsibility; indeed, such freedom is scary to many who realize that they would not survive in a world where it reigned supreme.

Talk it up. The fact that you rely on cheap insults and chose to attack my username over my positions does little more than reaffirm my belief that you can't argue the issues legitimately. But your ignorance about life and how it really works speaks for itself.

]]> Seattle Crime Blogger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039314 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039314 City Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:13:53 -0800 Comment by Bison "Ayn Rand [...] requires a higher level of understanding to appreciate"

You called that one, Fnarf. On the nose.

"indeed, such freedom is scary to many who realize that they would not survive in a world where it reigned supreme."

The funny part is that the Randians are often the least suited to survival in this hypothetical world of hyper-individualism that they're always advocating. They're just not bright enough to realize it.

]]> Bison http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039318 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039318 City Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:20:32 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Ayn Rand was a talentless, bug-eyed freak, SCB, and her attempts at expressing her dim philosophy in turgid fiction are arguably the most laughable literary works of all time. She makes Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who has a frigging bad-writing contest named after him, read like Charles Dickens. And there has never been a writer who exhibited less understanding of "life and how it really works".

I don't need to "argue the issues" with you; you don't have anything to argue with. Higher understanding, my ass. Do you hear Wagner in the background when you type stuff like "would not survive in a world where it reigned supreme"? Are you wearing a cape, by any chance?

Randians are the most contemptible little worms of all the little worms there are. Now get back to your police radio, I'll bet there's a lot of blockbuster traffic action with all this rain.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039354 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039354 City Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:54:33 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave Randians are mostly adolescents. Ayn Rand was a knee jerk reaction to a craptacular childhood.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039368 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039368 City Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:03:43 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave why don't homeless people have the right to sleep where they want? especially in a supposed public space? why is the state limiting the freedom of homeless people?

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039376 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039376 City Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:08:30 -0800 Comment by Fnarf @23, yes. I was a Randian for about three days when I was in 10th grade. That ended when I got maybe 100 pages into "The Fountainhead" and realized that no recognizable human beings were ever going to put in an appearance.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039407 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039407 City Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:42:21 -0800 Comment by laterite This was the best thread of the day.

]]> laterite http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039563 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039563 City Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:05:26 -0800 Comment by brianmyfatass any teenage not into ayn rand needs to read more.

any adult still into ayn rand needs to read more.

]]> brianmyfatass http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039577 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/that_nightlife_isnt_gonna_crack_down_on#c1039577 City Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:41:23 -0800