Dear firefighters:

You're held in trust by the public. You can never stop being a firefighter -- even when you're off-duty, drunk, and hanging out in Pioneer Square. Next time you find yourself under suspicion for being an asshole, please neglect to mention where you work.

thanks,
the Public

Here is what reading Savage Love has done to my mind.... Calf Fetish? I assumed that meant the animal. And that the powerlifter was lifting a small bovine.

Not that I'm complaining. It got me to click on the link out of curiosity.

It's really sad. Underneath that drunken rage are fire fighters with good souls - who let themselves snap by seeing the homeless man on that statue and all hell broke loose.

Everytime I see the city name Westwood I think of the Yul Brynner movie 'Westworld.'

@4 Or they're just assholes with barely- contained anger-management problems that a couple drinks too many let slip out of their control.

Phoebe, the hero-worship crowd that believes everyone wearing a uniform is automatically and always a hero is a frightening crowd.

Would you say that an unemployed man with a family to feed that robbed a bank to pay for groceries was a 'good soul' and deserved our forgiveness too?

Public servants. Public slaves.

Could it be...batteries?

8. What other theories and speculation has been offered?

Lithium batteries: Investigators are looking into the possibility that lithium batteries, which have been blamed in previous crashes, played a role in the disappearance, according to U.S. officials briefed on intelligence and law-enforcement developments. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

Malaysia Flight 370: The 10 big question…

Hey Slog, you should report on this:

Gravity Waves from Big Bang Detected

Detection of Waves in Space Buttresses Landmark Theory of Big Bang

'"This is huge, as big as it gets." ... "this is a signal from the very earliest universe, sending a telegram encoded in gravitational waves."
'The ripples manifested themselves as faint spiral patterns in a bath of microwave radiation that permeates space and preserves a picture of the universe when it was 380,000 years old and as hot as the surface of the Sun.'

'Confirming [the theory of] inflation [following the Big Bang] would mean that the universe we see, extending 14 billion light-years in space with its hundreds of billions of galaxies, is only an infinitesimal patch in a larger cosmos whose extent, architecture and fate are unknowable.'

o_O

@9 - They did report on it, but the post is invisible to the human eye. You can find the link .

Here's one silly notion concerning the Firefighter/Homeless-guy mess: don't build memorials at a place which has been historically claimed by homeless folk with part of it convenient for lying down on! ...and then expect no one to lie down on it.

@8: Because hydrogen has never caused dangerous problems in flight. http://www.medary.com/images/articles/20…

Totally silly: I clicked on that last story expecting to see some weightlifter dude hoisting an actual calf in the air. It took a second… clearly I need some coffee...

The Ukrainian government continues to prepare for war. This is a disaster. But there are examples where Russia has gotten it's ass kicked by smaller countries. Problem is, Russia will go to any lengths.

@6: I don't know why you went in so many directions with that. All I was saying is that someone who devotes their career to such a profession for public safety has a good intent, and who blows it like that is saddening. Why does such a thought ruffle your feathers?

@15 - All human beings have some kind of capability for good intention, barring some kind of horrifying mental disorder. Besides that, there are a thousand other reasons for going into firefighting that don't require good intentions or moral fortitude. Your original comment engages in a completely unhelpful (in fact, counterproductive) kind of hero worshiping that assumes facts not in evidence. All we know about these people is that they kicked a sleeping homeless man and that they are employed by the fire department. But I'm sure they meant the best; he was probably on fire.

@16: Are you're trying to equate sadness or pity as hero worship for the perpetrator? If so, why do you feel the need to make that stretch? Do you feel I have less compassion for the homeless man just because I made that observation? Please explain.

@4: In vino veritas.

@17 - The sadness you expressed was for the firemen. I honestly have trouble telling sometimes if you're a troll or just a piece of work.