Nathan's Occasional Blog

If I only had Mike’s “sticktoittiveness” with the M’s.  I gave up 2 years ago.  Alicea and I used to watch every game on TV.  Believe me, July sucked when it was M’s games vs. Tour de France.  Now?  I can’t even put on FSN during a game just to have background noise while I search for something else in the channel guide!

Anyway, you’ve got to read Mike’s chronology of this season.  I love his mood tracker. 

Ahh, the Seattle Mariners. I went into this year without a lot of hope (witness — no optimistic 2006 predictions like the crazy 2005 ones). But… this team is unlike any other I have been a fan of. They have managed to get me excited and crush me not once, or twice, but seven times. Today I gave up on them for good. Or at least, I hope so.

Source: ikeepitreal: Give it Up, Turn it Loose; Or, Why Barry Zito Can Take His Laid-Back Attitude and Surfer Style Elsewhere

“The officers had no way of knowing the suspect was deaf and mute and the suspect apparently was unable to communicate that to the officers,” one supervisor wrote in a review. “The suspect could have avoided this confrontation by remaining calm and still.”

So the police expect disabled people to start wearing shirts that say “don’t shoot – I’m deaf” or “…I’ve got a learning disability” or …. 

Way to go Seattle PD, this was obviously the fault of the individual.  Can you imagine being in a silent world, one you already have trouble coping with, waiting to go to work, and when you turn around there’s an angry woman pointing a gun at you?  Yeah he shouldn’t have run – but I can understand why he did.

At least they had the decency not to press charges. 

Source: Taser use on deaf man defended