Monday, November 17, 2008
Media KOMOphobes
Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:16 PM
First, credit to Wiseblood for "KOMOphobes"—brilliant. I'm feeling pretty KOMOphobic after seeing their teaser for tonight's installment of "problem solver," in which their brave correspondent takes on local sex havers. But... can someone tape it for me? Pretty please? I'm not sure I can tear myself away from the Daily Show long enough to catch all the action over at KOMO.
Nerd / Film Warning!
Posted by Jonathan Golob on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:10 PM
This second trailer has me concerned. Mightily concerned.
Sex / Media Maybe It Wouldn't Be a "Problem" If They Called It a Church?
Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 7:54 PM
Can someone please explain to me just what the "problem" is that KOMO's "problem solver" is trying to solve here? And Allena doesn't "own" the Center for Sex Positive Culture, KOMO, as it's... a non-profit. So it doesn't have an owner. And don't you love the way the announcer pronounces the word "sex"? He makes it sound all dirty and stuff. And who's the feather-haired douchebag screaming about people having sex on the premises?
Next up on KOMO: There are people having ssssseeeeexxxxx "on the premises" of dozens of multi-million-dollar businesses in downtown Seattle. Hotels? OR SEX CLUBS! ZOMG!
And I'm not sure what KOMO means by "we're paying for it"—unless KOMO is referring to the Center's tax-exempt status. In which case lots of us are "paying for" all sorts of shit around here that we might not want to: churches, fringe theaters, and pretty soon CrossCut too.
Be sure to tune in to KOMO tonight at 11 for your steaming pile of sex-negative hysteria.
2008 Just Wondering
Posted by David Schmader on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 6:34 PM
Should the post-Prop 8 boycott of Mormon businesses extend to the vampire-book-into-vampire-film juggernaut Twilight, whose creator is a proud and active Mormon?
I understand asking queers to miss a movie about vampires is ludicrous, but....the bazillions of dollars the Twilight enterprise is sure to rake in will add up to millions in paid tithes for Stephanie Meyer.
(For the record, I don't necessarily think people should boycott Twilight. I'm just wondering.)
Homo Snow Job
Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:28 PM
One fag-with-a-grudge-and-an-advice-column announces that, in the wake of Mormon-funded Prop H8, he's not taking his lil' gay family snowboarding in Utah this year, and the state craps its collective pants.
Best to the wife, Sean, and I get it, I get it: you're not all bigots and haters, and people marched against Prop 8 in Salt Lake City this weekend. But I'm not ready to make nice—on purpose or by accident—with the bigots and haters from Magic Underpants Inc. who donated money and time to Prop 8.
Let's try to keep this little "boycott" of mine in perspective, shall we? Mormons—who aren't in a position to be throwing stones at other peoples' marriages—contributed millions of dollars to strip same-sex couples of their right to wed. And now two fags and their ten year-old son are going to gay-marryin' British Columbia to snowboard this winter, not Utah. You may have a beef with me and others "[singling] out Utah for [our] wrath over Prop. 8's passage," but we have a much bigger beef with the religious bigots that run Utah.
Money No Limit Pirates
Posted by Charles Mudede on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:21 PM
Somali pirates yesterday seized a Saudi supertanker carrying up to 2m barrels of oil worth around $100m in an audacious attack several hundred miles out to sea. Two Britons are among the 25 crew of the Sirius Star, which was captured 450 miles south-east of the Kenyan port of Mombasa. The US navy, which has been tracking the ship, said last night it was close to anchoring in the notorious pirate haven of Eyl on Somalia's north-eastern coast.
I won't hide it. I'm impressed.
Politics Obama Meets With McCain: Not AWKWARD at All!
Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:19 PM
You've just won the presidency, and it's your first post-election meeting with your main competitor who in the recent past has said some very nasty things, including linking you with terrorists. So... what do you talk about? Maybe... football? Maybe... the press? Maybe... about how incredibly AWKWARD this meeting is? Please! Somebody! SAY THE WORDS!
Religion You Don't Have to Be Fucking Nuts to Be Religious...
Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 4:53 PM
...but it helps. Listen as the Catholic cardinal of Baltimore talks about Barack Obama's "clenched jaw," and Obama's "aggressive, disruptive, and apocalyptic" agenda, and the "hot, bitter tears" of the Catholic faithful.
Man, I wish my mother—a practicing Catholic, Joel—were still alive. She'd listen to this, shake her head, lift an eyebrow and then say, "Some idiots are Catholics, but not all Catholics are idiots—despite the impression the hierarchy works so hard to create."
Religion Good News, Too Late
Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 4:51 PM
Via Wonkette, we learn that Focus on the Family is laying off 202 people, about twenty percent of its current workforce. Apparently, they blew all their money fighting Proposition 8.
The cutbacks come just weeks after the group pumped more than half a million dollars into the successful effort to pass a gay-marriage ban in California.Critics are holding up the layoffs, which come just two months after the organization’s last round of dismissals, as a sad commentary on the true priorities of ministry.
“If I were their membership I would be appalled,” said Mark Lewis, a longtime Colorado Springs activist who helped organize a Proposition 8 protest in Colorado Springs on Saturday. “That [Focus on the Family] would spend any money on anything that’s obviously going to get blocked in the courts is just sad. [Prop. 8] is guaranteed to lose, in the long run it doesn’t have a chance — it’s just a waste of money.”
In conclusion:
City The Mayoral Race: It's On
Posted by Erica C. Barnett on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 4:40 PM
In what may be the earliest mayoral reelection launch ever, business-industry supporters of Mayor Greg Nickels (up for reelection in 2009) are holding a fundraiser right after Thanksgiving, on Wednesday, December 3 at the downtown law offices of Foster Pepper PLLC. The invitation, signed by representatives of Vulcan, Eli Lilly, Wright Runstad, Wells Fargo, and Lease Crutcher Lewis, among others, warns Nickels supporters to "be mindful of the tax burden placed on the business community," and notes that Nickels's "bold and steady leadership in encouraging the transformation of South Lake Union in a few short years into a thriving biotech, commercial and residential center ... has been remarkable."
The suggested donation? Between $250 and $700 (the legal limit). So far, Nickels has collected $241,718.52, and has $174,864.78 in the bank.
Homo Why I'm CONVINCED These Guys Aren't Gay
Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 4:30 PM
Yes, this is a "French Disco" song. Yes, the video stars the French boy band known as "Pipones." And yet, I remain unconvinced the three guys depicted in the video are gayer than Gaylord McGayerson, the grand marshal of Gay Town's annual gay pride parade. My reasons follow:
1) Gay men don't drop their trousers down to their ankles while standing at a urinal.
2) Gay men don't feign interest in women — unless they are Republicans.
3) Gay men would never lower themselves to such base, unimaginative choreography.
4) Gay men don't dress up as American tourists — even to be funny.
And yet... gay men do write the catchiest, ear buggiest songs — and this number definitely falls under that category. YOU MAKE THE CALL!
Chow This Week in Chow
Posted by Brendan Kiley on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 4:18 PM
As you begin to contemplate dinner, contemplate this week's chow section, wherein David Schmader visits a new vegetarian restaurant and (figuratively) punches a hippie:
As we finished our meals, I overheard the chef discussing this coffee with a diner, praising its "cleanness" and lack of impact on his gastrointestinal system.The chef's dining-room dissertation on his bowels suggested a theory about the food's lack of heat and spark and flavor. As is perhaps befitting for a restaurant that's an offshoot of a yoga studio, Sutra's outlook includes not only gratitude to the producers but an eye on the final, postdigestion product. While what happens in between can seem secondary, the namasté vibe will be as important to Sutra's fans as the food. And while criticizing the place feels a bit like punching a hippie for giving you a daisy, it's worth noting that daisies don't come with a $33 price tag.
Meanwhile, Steven Blum interviews an Afghan aristocrat, and Bethany Jean Clement luxuriates with the wealthy at the swank hotel bar of the new Four Seasons downtown:
A man in a navy blue suit embraces a woman and says, "Are you having fun in the new see-and-be-seen place?" He's correct: ART has much more energy and much less anonymity than a typical hotel bar, perfect for running into someone you'd like to know. "I just got off a plane from SF, where I closed a huge deal," he says. Nearby, the team behind the light rail campaign drinks champagne.
By this weekend, the that place will be the destination bar for gold-diggers of all ages and genders.
Architecture Stop! In the Name of Love
Posted by Charles Mudede on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 4:04 PM
This development on 3rd and Pine...
If only the builders would drop what they are doing and leave things as is. How can we get them to cease and go away for good? As the day clears a morning mist, completion will clear this strange spell.
City / Enviro Light Rail: Who Will Think of the TREES?!
Posted by Erica C. Barnett on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 4:04 PM
We at the Stranger just got an email from a concerned arborphile unhappy with the fact that Sound Transit, in building a station for light rail on Capitol Hill, will be removing approximately 70 trees on and around the station site. Although Sound Transit spokesman Bruce Gray notes that the agency will replace "as many of the trees as possible," the email, from Capitol Hill Community Council vice president Charlette LeFevre, says these "replacement saplings will never replace the shade, beauty and [grandeur] of the original trees and we will never see these saplings mature in our lifetime."
Now, let it never be said that I'm not the biggest tree-hugger at the Stranger. I talk to my vegetables, dote on the Japanese maple in my backyard, and just last weekend spent two full days building the soil for next year's organic vegetable garden. But on the relative scale of environmental goods and evils—good: I walked to work this morning; evil: I cleared the leaves from yard with a gas-powered leaf blower—a light-rail line with a stop on Capitol Hill far outweighs a few dozen trees, mostly on private property (and thus vulnerable anyway), around the station.
And it's not like we're talking—in most cases—about exceptional or heritage trees.
Take these ten non-native hornbeams and maples, by the former Jack In the Box on Broadway, for example.
Or this nice but rather scraggly shore pine tree, a native that lives behind the former Crypt:
Walking along the perimeter of the future station site (access to which is largely restricted by chain-link fences), I saw only a few trees that seemed even remotely remarkable, my favorite of which was this Western red cedar on Denny Way:
Now that's a tree worth saving. But I'll gladly give it up for a transit system with a much greater positive environmental impact.
Gray says Sound Transit—with the help of an agency arborist—determined which trees could be transplanted and which had root systems too complex to move. Most street trees, he said—the ones that weren't on private property to begin with—will be preserved. Of the 20 street trees that will be casualties of construction, Gray says, "all 20 will be replaced."
Film Bad Milk
Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:10 PM
There is a Facebook group trying to keep people from watching Milk at Cinemark theaters. Apparently, the owner of Cinemark theaters donated $9,999 to the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign, and so this group is fighting to make sure that gay and gay-friendly people who can choose other theaters to watch Milk do choose other theaters.
The group's initial goal was to get 1,000 people to join, ensuring that Cinemark will lose at least 10,000 dollars for their anti-gay-marriage stance. They easily passed that mark, and are now trying to get 10,000 people to swear they won't watch Milk on a Cinemark screen. There are only two theaters in all of Washington owned by Cinemark (the Century Federal Way and the Century Olympia) so it won't be so hard for us Washingtonians to watch Milk at other theaters. Slog readers who are from elsewhere are advised to look here to determine if their local theater is owned by Cinemark. I think this is an example of a useful boycott.
Books / Religion "It Should Be Christlike"
Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:08 PM
Poet Patrick Jones was going to do a release party and signing of his book Darkness is Where the Stars Are at Waterstone's, a British chain bookseller. The day of the reading, Jones suddenly received an e-mail from Waterstone's telling him the reading was cancelled. The reason? Pressure from a group called Christian Voice. They insisted that the book was obscene and threatened to protest the reading.
The national director of Christian Voice, Stephen Green, said the decision was a triumph "for the Lord, not for us"."The Lord had not even showed me what we should do at Waterstone's, only that it should be Christlike.
"Just the knowledge that we were on our way has put the fear of God into the opposition."
As with any of these Christian book-banning nutcases, simply stopping the reading wasn't good enough for Green. Now he's trying to get Waterstone's to stop carrying the book altogether. Waterstone's insists they will keep the book on the shelves, but they've already demonstrated how principled they are at keeping their word to authors. This is another reason why chain bookstores suck: they have no goddamned spine.
Media Today in Baffling Advertising
Posted by David Schmader on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:52 PM
This billboard has been up for an indeterminate amount of time near the intersection of Seattle's Broadway and Pine, in the heart of the Capitol Hill neighborhood, where I can't imagine too many people are at risk of forgetting September 11. Yesterday I walked by it once again, this time with my fella Jake.
ME: Who is that billboard aimed at?!
JAKE: Alzheimer's patients. They've got to start somewhere, and getting individual billboards for each grandchild's name would cost a fortune.
Dear God: Thank you for sending me an angel.
Celeb / Homo Ashton Kutcher v. Dan Savage
Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:21 PM
Last Friday night I appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher via satellite from New York. One of the three panelists on last Friday's show was Ashton Kutcher. Longtime "Savage Love" readers will recall that I had something of a crush on Kutcher back in the day—back in the pre-Punk'd days, the pre-smoking-a-cigarette-on-the-cover-of-Rolling Stone days, the pre-Demi days. On Friday night Ashton brought up an email exchange that we had at the height of my crush. While Kutcher swore me to secrecy about the email at the time—he wanted to keep things between us on the "down low"—this is the second time Kutcher has brought up our email exchange in a very public way. First in a Rolling Stone profile, and now on Real Time. I've never publicly discussed our email exchange.
Until now.
I have no other choice but to go on the record because Kutcher claimed on Real Time that I sent him a "nasty" email after he sent me a polite note declining an invitation to an entirely hypothetical sex party. Nasty? The record will show that Kutcher is either misrepresenting or misremembering our exchange.
But before we get to the email exchange, some context: It all began in January of 2002 with an innocent aside, an offhand comment, a parenthetical reference to Kutcher...
Going out on a limb, I would guess that the number of people out there wetting beds is significantly higher than the number of people out there contemplating the number of people wetting beds. I know that prior to receiving your letter, PISSOFF, I hadn't wasted any time imagining bed wetters. (My imagination is wholly devoted to images of Brad Pitt coming all over Ashton Kutcher's face.)
That aside lead to this exchange in a subsequent column:
You recently wrote, "My imagination is wholly devoted to images of Brad Pitt coming all over Ashton Kutcher's face." Can you try to leave your own graphic sexual fantasies out of your column? Especially when it has nothing to do with the question! This wasn't advice; it was forcing your readers to listen to your fantasies.—KS In PortlandI'm sorry, KSIP, but if I have to read about my readers' sexual fantasies week after week (think of all the letters I get that don't make it into the column), then, by God, I'm going to burden my readers with one of mine every once in a while. And if you think Brad Pitt coming all over Ashton Kutcher's face is gross, then shit, lady, I have sexual fantasies that would burst your skull.... And if you want to keep my sexual fantasies out of this column, KSIP, why on earth did you send me this letter? You had to know there was a chance I'd use your letter in my column, thereby doubling the number of times the phrase "Brad Pitt coming all over Ashton Kutcher's face" has appeared in my column. And you must have known that I was likely to mention Brad Pitt coming all over Ashton Kutcher's face in my response, which would triple or quadruple the number of times Brad Pitt coming all over Ashton Kutcher's face was mentioned in my column.
But I'll make you a deal, KSIP: I will never again mention Brad Pitt coming all over Ashton Kutcher's face, if you cut me some friggin' slack the next time I mention a fantasy of mine that has nothing to do with Brad Pitt coming all over Ashton Kutcher's face. Deal?
Which lead in turn to this exchange:
Way to go, Dan! A column that was all sex and no politics, with a huge variety of titillating topics! Just one question. Who the hell is Ashton Kutcher?—Clue Me InWHO IS ASHTON KUTCHER?
Ashton Kutcher is ONLY the most beautiful man on television today. He plays Kelso on the Fox's That '70s Show, and has appeared in a handful of movies (all of them awful), including Down to You, Texas Rangers, and Dude, Where's My Car? He is frequently the subject of heavy-breathing stories in teenybopper magazines like Tiger Beat, Teen People, and The New Republic. Ashton is so famous that there are currently 40 Ashton Kutcher items for sale on eBay, including an autographed index card, a pair of his pants, and a mint-condition Dude, Where's My Car? lobby placard.
Which finally lead to this fateful exchange:
If you could have any three people alive today over for an intimate, leisurely, conversation-filled dinner party, whom would you invite? If you could have any three people alive today over for a wild sex party that would begin immediately after the dinner party, whom would you invite? What I'm curious about—and I've put this question to all of my friends and most of my family—is if there's any overlap. Are you sexually attracted to the people you want to converse with? Or are these two groups distinct, separate, and unequal?—Erotic Rights Over SoldDinner party: Paul Krugman, op-ed columnist for the New York Times; Florence King, columnist for National Review ("Misanthrope's Corner"); and Katha Pollitt, columnist for The Nation ("Subject to Debate").
Sex party: Ashton Kutcher, star of That '70s Show; Brian Standeford, lead singer of the Catheters; and Pontus Farnerud of the Swedish World Cup soccer team.
Okay, so there's not a lot of overlap, and I suppose that means I'm a desperately shallow person. In my defense, EROS, I would point out that Florence King and Katha Pollitt are both women, which disqualifies them from attending any sex party I might host. As for Paul Krugman, well, I've never actually laid eyes on the man. For all I know, Krugman is my type—skinny, tall, boyish, old enough to vote—but somehow I doubt there are many prize-winning economists out there who look like Ashton Kutcher. However, if Krugman does look like Kutcher, he's more than welcome to stick around after dinner.
On July 15, 2002, this email arrived:
From: Jason Goldberg
Subject: disgruntled sex party guest
Date: July 15, 2002 12:45:32 PM PDTdan
I regret to inform you that you've made an extremely poor decision in inviting me to the sex party rather than the dinner party. I would be of absolutely no use to you at your sex party being that I am a heterosexual male. Although I could be an extremely interesting dinner guest.
You would have all of the superficial qualities that got me invited to the sex party readily available to you. As you could stare at me while I speak of my worldly adventures and trials and tribulations at the table.
My presence at the dinner table would be of far more use to you, hence I speak for a living, while all of your other guests are far more suited for conveying their feelings through ink and paper. Then again maybe I don't want to be invited to either because I have no desire to sit with someone who creates their invite lists through such superficial means.
Have a great party!
Best regards,
Possible Prize Winning Economist
Before we get to my supposedly "nasty" response, I'd first like to point out that Kutcher did not, despite what he told Rolling Stone in 2003 ("I sent him an e-mail, saying, 'Hi, this is Ashton Kutcher and I appreciate that I could be invited to your party to look at, but..."), identify himself. And I'd received dozens of emails from people claiming go be Kutcher; why would I believe that this email from one "Jason Goldberg" was actually from Kutcher? My emailed response:
From: Dan Savage
Subject: Re: disgruntled sex party guest
Date: July 15, 2002 5:22:13 PM PDTwho are you? i don't recall inviting a "jason goldberg" to the sex party. or the dinner party. please explain yourself.
dan
Kutcher wrote back —and, at the time, said nothing about my response being in the least bit rude.
From: Jason Goldberg
Subject: Re: disgruntled sex party guest
Date: July 16, 2002 1:05:57 AM PDTIf you reread the article that you wrote I believe it will be obvious who this is. But if you need a clue, I work on a television show that airs on Fox. I've also been featured in a major motion picture called "Dude Wheres My Car". I apologize for not writing under my own name and if you could keep this confidential it would be appreciated.
please serve caprese as an apetiser,
ashton kutcher
I honored Kutcher's request and kept our email exchange confidential. I even let it pass when he mischaracterized our interaction to a Rolling Stone writer five years ago. But I had no choice but to defend myself after Kutcher characterized my response to his email as "nasty." What was nasty about my response? And I wrote back to Kutcher again—and politely, since I believed it was him. Unfortunately I didn't save those emails. Perhaps Kutcher has them and will share them with the world.
International Catalan speakers the world's 15th-most productive Wikipedists, English speakers the 28th. Also: Korfball.
Posted by Brendan Kiley on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:03 PM
This informal study, posted last year, divides the number of Wikipedia articles in a given language by the total language-speaker population, and voilà—a chart showing which languages are, per head, the most prolific Wikipedia writers:
(The first column is productivity ranking, the second is gross number of articles, the third is the name of the language. See the whole chart, with all 50 languages here.)
Prod | Article | Language
1 | 48 | Icelandic
2 | 15 | Esperanto
3 | 41 | Basque
4 | 31 | Estonian
5 | 9 | Swedish
6 | 14 | Norwegian
7 | 27 | Slovenian
8 | 13 | Finnish
9 | 6 | Dutch
10 | 16 | Slovak
11 | 28 | Lithuanian
12 | 18 | Danish
13 | 19 | Hebrew
14 | 4 | Polish
15 | 20 | Catalan
16 | 42 | Ido*
17 | 35 | Galician
18 | 3 | French
19 | 2 | German
20 | 17 | Czech
21 | 32 | Croatian
22 | 36 | Norwegian (Nynorsk)
23 | 29 | Bulgarian
24 | 7 | Italian
25 | 26 | Serbian
26 | 22 | Hungarian
27 | 44 | Georgian
28 | 1 | English
29 | 50 | Bosnian
30 | 5 | Japanese
Other ways Catalonia is whupping the United States: they've got less breast cancer and just beat England to take the number five slot in the International Korfball Federation!
And 10 out of 10 Americans don't even know what the fuck korfball is!
We're doomed!
(*What is Ido, you ask? Nü-Esperanto! DOOOOOOM!)
Books Meh
Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 1:54 PM
Via Maud, there's news that the Collins dictionary has included the word "meh" as the newest word in the English language
I'm not really crazy about the word "meh"—I guess you could say I'm meh about it—because it's the vocal equivalent of a disaffected shrug. I was having a very long e-mail argument once with some douchebag about his use of the word "cunt," (I really hate using the word "cunt," when used as a description of a woman, especially when it's a douchebag guy using the word) and he finally just ended the fight by saying "Meh. I'm not into political correctness." If he had said "Meh" to me in person, I would've fucking driven his head through a wall.
But in any case, I'm completely in favor of "meh" going into the dictionary because it was competing against the words "jargonaut," "frenemy," and "huggles." Those are all much worse words than "meh."
Homo Et tu, Prince?
Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 1:23 PM
Says JoeMyGod:
The Artist Formerly Known As Brilliant now says that gays got what they deserved at Sodom and Gomorrah.
Which is exactly what Prince told The New Yorker.
When asked about his perspective on social issues—gay marriage, abortion—Prince tapped his Bible and said, “God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, and he just cleared it all out. He was, like, 'Enough.'”
??!! "Creative Grooming"
Posted by Lindy West on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 1:08 PM
Or, as I like to call it, "Emotionally Raping Your Dog for Profit and Pleasure (Mostly Pleasure)."
Exhibit A: "A Poodle Ninja Turtle-Leonardoodle"
My condolences to Cindy the poodle (couldn't she at LEAST get to be Donatello?).
(Thanks to my friend Andrew, professional mucker-outer of the internet's batshitcraziest corners.)
Religion Look Who's Preaching, Too!
Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:51 PM
Ted motherfucking Haggard has remounted the pulpit in Illinois, and he pinned his gay meth hobby to being molested as a child..
Haggard declined to be interviewed this week following a report saying he preached two sermons Nov. 2 at Open Bible Fellowship Church in Morrison, Ill., at the invitation of the senior pastor, a longtime friend. Audio of the sermons was up on his Web site, www.tedhaggard.com, Wednesday morning, but by afternoon the site was down.In his sermons, Haggard said he was molested at age 7 by a person who worked for his dad. He linked that incident to his sexual relationship with the Denver prostitute and his use of crystal meth.
This is what you get when you go to Haggard's website, by the way:
I can't wait until the rebuilding is done. I'm sure he has all his finest web-tech people on it.
News Weapons Charges Against Seattle Cops Dismissed
Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:38 PM
A South Dakota court has dismissed weapons charges against several Seattle police officers involved in an August 8th shooting inside the Loud American Road House bar in Sturgis, South Dakota.
Detective Ron Smith was initially charged with assault perjury and weapons charges following the August 8th shooting. Four other members of the Iron Pigs Motorcycle Club—a biker gang made up of law enforcement officers and firefighters—were also cited for misdemeanor weapons violations. All charges against the officers have now been dismissed.
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