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Hunter S Thompson once observed that the only objective journalism he'd ever seen was done by the security camera at the stop'n'shop in Woody Creek, CO.
Good luck @ City Beat, Will. BTW, did Dean retire or did you have him whacked?

"...if you commit a crime, we don’t really care whether you were walking your dog or freebasing your cat." What if I'm smoking marijuana for medical purposes, which is legal under state law but illegal under Federal law? Should I go to jail?
"Prop. 5 strips judges of the authority to do what their title demands they do from 9 to 5: make judgments." The Fed did that over 20 years ago by creating that loveliness known as "mandatory minimum sentencing." Talk about judges being stripped of authority. Passing Prop 5 just means that judges won't have to send drug users to jail. Aside from David Crosby, I don't know of a single drug ab/user who benefitted from time in the slammer.

The LBCC seems determined to stage a real life version of Fahrenheit 451. Except they don't have the stones to actually try and burn books.
Buncha goddamn losers and Quislings.

"Penny will land on her feet, but all those responsible for the demise of Acres Of Books should be going to Hell."

Quoted for truth.

Dick Ray? Hope for your sake that's a pseudonym.

God bless you, Mr Bradbury. And nuts to the LBCC!

The LBCC is a bunch of pussies. You'd break an old man's heart--a man who has more talent, bravery, courage and intelligence in his pinkie than you all have in your entire corpulent bodies--for a fucking Quiznos'. Fuck you all. Molotov cocktails on the house.

This breaks my fucking heart. I'm not kidding.

Yeah Mr Mayor, you tell the world-famous author, fantasist and imagineer (before walt copyrighted the word) why the fuck Acres of Books can't stay at its location in Long Beach. Go on. I'm waiting. You pussy.

Does that maybe mean that Acres of Books *won't* be bulldozed? Oh wait, that was just a dream I had. That's very different. Never mind. :/

I too am disturbed by the Commisioner's email in post 84. Does anyone have an explanation that is pejorative-free>

Long live Ray and Acres of Books.

OMG! How does Keith stay on the air? That was MAGNIFICENT! I hope Dubya's ears aren't the only part of him burning...

Love Johnny Rebs (I'm from MD). Thought "reconstruction" line was funny.

Don't let these morons try to persuade you to recast yourself. You are neither victim nor villain. As one of the previous commentators pointed out, the thief couldn't have been that hard-up if she was using your card to get her nails done. She used you, and the Detective alternated between sitting on her ass, chewing you out, and making you the butt of a very cruel April Fool's joke. Most people would have gone ballistic at that point, cop or no. You have NOTHING to apologize for.

Duh, Rachel, I *know* that. But on average white folks make more than black folks, no matter how hard they work (or don't).That's the disparity I was talking about.

To Sassy Sue: You don't know what kinds of pressure were brought to bare on the owners, besides economic. Why don't you wait until the whole story is known before passing judgment? And fuck all the revenue that Acres of Books brought in to the city. And while I'm at it, fuck Southern California and the disease, syphilis-carrying dogfood-factory bound horse it rode in on.

Dribble wrote: As long as humans keep making more unwanted animals, there will alwasy be an issue as to what to do with them.

I hereby apologize for my wife's recent delivery of a 10 pound Himilayan. His name is Puma, and we looooooooooooooove him.

Fuck the Long Beach City Council. May their children grow up to be hydrocephalic mouth-breathing illiterates who watch reality TV when they're not beating up the wife and kids.

"The answer is no. We cannot and do not “all agree that spending the taxpayers’ money on print advertising of public notices–ever, but maybe especially now–is wrong.”

Explain.

I like him a lot. He supports legalizing drugs--esp. marijuana--and ending this stupid war in Iraq. Plus his YouTube ads are out of this world--a marriage of politics and post-modern minimalism. way cool.

I'm no fan of Buchanan--I agree with you he's a sloppy thinker--but I don't see where he says that black men enjoy raping white women more than white men enjoy raping black women. As to the actual statistic he quoted about blacks targeting whites for assaults: that's because they know where the money is--with rich white folks. If you're a criminal, that's just common sense.