Night swimming can sound like a great idea, especially when it's been hot and dry like this, and especially when you're a bit intoxicated (I don't know if these guys were and I wouldn't be surprised), but there is big risk involved. You're completely on your own and help won't come quickly if you need it. Please have fun but be careful, everyone.

@1, beautifully put. Thanks.

Interesting how there has been no coverage of Jenice Wright in The Stranger, not even in Dan's favorite topic "every child deserves a mother and a father." Jenice Wright, neglected 6 year old, found murdered in Bremerton trailer park. National news, not one mention here.

Why use the passive voice:
"A 72-Hour Truce in Gaza Ended This Morning"
when the facts seem to be that "Hamas started shooting rockets"?

Does that sound like a "He said, she said" remark?
Maybe but facts do matter.
Sometimes in fact HE did really say or that SHE really did say.

Oh I forgot, Stranger is "advocacy journalism.'

Imagine the outrage if it were Mitt bombing the misunderstood ISIS.

Does that mean more Seattle residents have accidentally died swimming in Green Lake than have accidentally died from handguns ?

#FillTheLake

Does that mean more Seattle residents have accidentally died swimming in Green Lake THIS YEAR than have accidentally died from handguns ?

#FillTheLake

things are going swimmingly as ususal.

Michael Sam makes his NFL debut tonight against the Saints on the NFL Network at 5 if anyone is interested.

@8 go screw. Green Lake isn't explicitly designed, manufactured, marketed and sold to kill people. This accident is incidental to Green Lake's intended purpose and use. Handgun accidents are a product of their purpose and use.

This is all so sad. The tragedy on Beacon Hill is as Dan Savage predicted in his 2013 book, American Savage, regarding his argument for gun control. If not stopped, gun related injuries and deaths will--and are---now everywhere, and can happen at any time. Gun deaths, related violence and social complacency must end.

RIP to those who were, agreed, probably intoxicated when braving a dip in Green Lake
and RIP Jenice Wright, who was shamefully neglected and found dead at 6 years of age.
Condolences to all.

*sigh* Stop the craziness, people!

IBM has announced a new computer chip that mimics the brain. It can even smell. They want to put it in phones, too.

@13 - They're not less dead, but how they died is clearly different, just like it's different if they were murdered. And we make a distinction between murder and manslaughter in our legal system because how and why someone died IS important.

And you have the gall to call anyone else a worthless idiot.

Also, what Hernandez @11 said.

Wow, how someone died is important. It's like Pridge Wessea is about to acknowledge that there's cases where a firearm accidentally discharges and accidentally results in a death and that's different from the liability one should face if you just decide to start imitating Call of Duty with your neighbors.

@19 - Totally. And for the person who deliberately loaded it and allowed it to be "accidentally" used, those penalties should be severe. Are we in agreement on that?