I don't possess the grammatical acumen to articulate what (if anything) is wrong with the first sentence of that "Seattle Cop Embraces His Inner Villain" quote. But it seems just awful.

I wish it was Ricky Gervais hosting the Oscars AND he would actually do what he thought of doing for the Golden Globes a few years ago and dress up as Hitler. Would be HILARIOUS!! And prove that these endless award shows are nothing more than pathetic jokes

You can't make anyone sign a contract saying they won't report criminal activity to police. She really is crazy!

The Seattle Times article about Seattle Police Department officer Clayton S. Powell #5776 also reveals that SPD initially misinformed the public about the August, 2012, incident in which Powell apparently used excessive force. At that time, Seattle Times reported:

A veteran Seattle police officer is under investigation after fellow officers reported he used excessive force and engaged in unprofessional conduct while responding to a disturbance Thursday night in South Seattle.

That report was backed with a quote from SPD spokesman Sean Whitcomb:

Whitcomb said Powell's actions were immediately reported by officers at the scene.

"We want people to understand that the officers on scene saw things that were unprofessional and saw what they thought was excessive use of force and they notified their boss, who notified the chain of command and immediate action was taken," Whitcomb said.

Dominic Holden followed that with two Slog posts, the first of which praised "stand-up officers who won't let this shit stand anymore."

Today, though, the Times reports:

Police initially said that other officers who responded to the shooting call reported that Powell had used excessive force and engaged in unprofessional conduct at the scene.

But police later revised their account, saying no other officer reported the conduct. Rather, a sergeant who routinely screened the arrest learned of it when he asked Powell's partner what had happened.

The partner told the sergeant to ask Powell, and when he did, Powell explained what had happened, police said.

So much for Seattle cops finally taking a stand for what's right when their colleagues abuse their positions of power.

You missed the best part about the salt/meth story:

When police responded to Akers’ call, they found her smoking marijuana with three teenage boys, officers said.

“It’s hard to put into words the level of intelligence that goes along with this,” said Butcher. “No brains at all.”

If you're going to cheat the craziest drug addicts around, be sure to do it out of your house, so they know how to find you later.

Good news for SLOGgers:

The Payscale Index reported that those in the media industry — which includes public relations jobs, entertainers and performers and media and communication workers — saw a wage increase of 4.6 percent between 2011 and 2012. This is higher than the 4.4 percent that those with IT jobs experienced.

Artsy-fartsies making more money than nerds!

Who would have imagined...?

http://www.businessinsider.com/jobs-with…

@7 and yet pay increases for the ultra-rich were many multiples of that, both in absolute and relative measures.

Europe is starting to worry about mobs burning CEOs and capitalists if their cars break down.

It will come here too, if we don't change. Quickly.

As Catalina would say, Republicans are dreadful people.

And then there's this guy:

Rep. Phil Gingrey, an ob-gyn and chairman of the GOP Doctors Caucus, explained to the audience at the Cobb Chamber of Commerce breakfast Thursday in Smyrna, Ga., that Akin wasn’t far off on the science when he said rape victims rarely get pregnant because their bodies have “ways of shutting that whole thing down.”

Good god help us!

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/…

@8 I've been thinking a lot lately of the quote about socialism being the thing that prevents capitalism from breeding anarchy. Capitalism leads to inequality; it's one of its defining properties. You need some other force to keep inequality and its cousin, populist uprising, in check. I think the GOP forgets that.

“It is sobering to think that a Christian member of Congress [Bachmann] would betray her testimony to the Lord and the public by withholding earned wages from deserving staff,” Waldron added.

She's a Republican first, man. Being "Christian", is merely GOP-mandated window dressing.

The Garfield High School teachers were covered in today's Democracy Now!

Seattle High School Teachers Vote to Refuse Standardized MAP Tests

The entire faculty of a Seattle-area high school has voted to refuse giving students a standardized test used in teacher evaluations. In a unanimous decision that is likely the first of its kind nationwide, teachers at Garfield High School said the MAP tests are a waste of time, money and resources that are then unfairly used to grade their performance.

Jesse Hagopian: "Today isn’t just about testing in general; it’s about a particularly flawed test."

Kit McCormick: "And I just see no use for it at all. And so, I’m not going to do it."

Writing on her website, former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch said the vote could have national ramifications for showing teachers "There is strength in unity and that they do not have to endure unethical demands with passivity and resignation."