Posts by Jake Pollock
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I get the feeling that they don't care. "It's only television".
Yeah, but those people love cops. And it's hard to imagine looking at a picture from the memorial service like this one and not reflecting on your own role in these things.
The shooting gets mentioned as a kind of aside in a lot of these discussions, and perhaps the likes of Crazy Glenn Beck think about it at the same level of abstraction. The police of North America don't though. Cops came to the memorial from as far away as Oregon, and even Toronto.
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Yet more on mass gun purchasing. I wonder if the people at Fox News and the NRA feel any sense of responsibility for the deaths of those cops last weekend.
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Thank you all. My next post will be about why I blog.
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Christianity in rock:
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You'll notice that the teams in the basketball clip had also had problems sorting out their home and away strips. Attitudes in professional sports filter right down to the schools, you know.
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Here's a question for those of you with more knowledge/time to check Wikipedia: are there any other cities *of a similar population size and geographic area* which we can compare this set-up to? Most of the comparisons I've seen have been to places like Sydney (5 million in the urban area) or London (11 million.) They don't quite work for me.
As a matter of fact, Pittsburgh is going through that process. The relatively small city (c. 300,000) is in the process of merging with the county of about a million.
As the article I linked to says, this isn't so much to do with clunky vision-less governance (the mayor is 29!) as with a declining population and thus declining local tax base. The major problem is duplication of services -- there are something like 10 different police forces in the area, including one for every university -- and development strategy isn't so much of a problem because there just isn't all that much development to do. Also, it's only merging two governments, not four or five. Those from the county are concerned that their taxes are going to be used to prop up a city they don't feel a part of, and of course those from the city are worried that the county is full of zombies.
Still, it's hard to see if anything is happening on this, as there was a burst of press about it this time last year, and not a lot since.
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What little exposure I've had to post-structuralism has left me with a hankering for a first-person-shooter-type game where you drive a laundry van through the streets of Paris, scuttling stray semioticians.
I LOLed, and then I felt dirty.
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Jake, your accent has really been affected by the Yanks.
Yes, that's Pittsburgh English for you.
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Oh, and Hadyn, we all picked Pitt to go through :-(. Wild game though.
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Oh, but you can always petition the ICC to reinstate the timeless test. I hear they're looking for ways to spice up the game and draw in more fans.