Who is Medgar Edwards? http://www.seattle.gov/parks/aquatics/ev…

Oh, and great work reporting on this thing that has to happen.

Hahahaha! "International media markets" = Daily Mail. Hahahahhahaha!

Jesus, why is this even hard!? "Cover your sex parts: if you don't have sex parts, we are very sorry for your loss. Your scars are not sex parts". No committee needed! I just saved the Parks thousands of bucks.

@3, sometimes girls just wanna have fun.

@3) That link is one of several examples. It's been picked up by lots of outlets, including the AP.

Can't we just let the ladies take their tops off anytime and anywhere, already?
Boob or no boobs, people need to relax about this isssue, I say.

@5, I love it - I think the Mail should be voted "most-amusingly-linked international media outlet on Slog". @6, please be more serious at all times.

Jodi is so beautiful. Power to her.

This is grist for the mill for moving Mr. Williams from Acting Supt. to Supt. (over his laudably decorous and conscientious objections if necessary) if it hasn't been done already.

I know all about falling on your sword for the greater good of the organization (not gonna get into it here), but I also know (because it's been the case for the last several years for the airport manager and the head librarian out here in tumbleweed-land) that local government toffs will refuse to promote those who have been fulfilling a higher job description following the resignation, death, or riding-out-of-town-on-a-rail of their supervisors, claiming budgetary constraints. They can bloody well cut their own salary/benefits/pensions if the shortfall is real.

@9

I was just about to post the same thought. Yes, when I see that photo, I someone who is beautiful.

@11

Crap, I meant, of course, I SEE someone who is beautiful.

No! They can't take time to come up with a thoughtful policy! Cienna won't stand for it!

"She made it clear she wanted to show her scars as a 'badge of courage' and wanted to use the pool to spread her message," says parks spokeswoman Dewey Potter.

Who is Dewey Potter, and what's her problem?

@10, in the long thread yesterday somebody claimed it wasn't that McGinn was dragging his feet appointing Williams full Superintendent, it was that Williams has a cancer diagnosis himself and has declined an offer to be confirmed in the post. I questioned how that would make any sense, since greater job stability can only reduce the stress of medical treatment, but whoever claimed to know did not return.

I did see that, Gus, which is what prompted my comment above. I agree with you; thanks.

(Re: my local sitch, in the early June election a couple of bonehead republitard county supervisors got displaced by hardworking progressive types [though our Congressional primary results were a major disappointment], so I'll be needling the newbies to do right by the library and airport managers.)

How about treating women and men equally? Just a thought. That you are legally obligated to comply with.

@4: but boobs aren't sex parts. At least not any more than armpit hair is.

Ding! Fifteen minutes are up! Thanks for coming, and please remove the photograph as you leave.

I know you'll do right by them, rob! That's a great opportunity to nudge things in the right direction.

"Where are you taking this...thing? (Well, at least that's what they'd say on the Death Star)

@ 4
Agreed. If a man had his penis amputated would that entitle him to swim nude?

@24 yes. The poor bastard. What's to be offended by? His empty pubic mound?

Geez, can we get over this silly superstition that the sight of natural body parts is somehow harmful? People should be allowed to swim nude if they damn well please. If someone is offended, well, if they can't handle the sight of human anatomy that's their problem!

Swimming topless, with or without breasts, should be every mans/womans/persons right. If men can swim with bare chests (and nipples), women should have the same right.
Not a requirement to swim topless, but clearly the right to do exactly what men have done for years. The kids will get over it in two weeks....their uptight parents...a little longer.
They're only breasts....grow up and get over it.

I swim topless all the time, but then I'm a man. Double standards!