Comments on: What do you do when you hit on a girl in a bar and she’s not interested?

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:13:18 +0000

Albatross: I believe that is correct inre the voter fraud, according to MPR news this AM

You obviously know the campus. If I knew someone was in a particular bar and heading home at 1AM I could easily set up a driving pattern by which I could cross paths with them a number of times, assuming that I assumed that they would be heading home. The part about the three of them being in the road at the time may well have been opportunistic, unless he was waiting on the side of the road estimating that they would walk down that street.

In Dinkytown, at 1AM on Sunday, half the people out are walking in the street, and they are all drunk. Cars wade, not drive, through the neighborhood.

Are you serious? The guy killed in Minneapolis had stolen that bike? I had not heard that. Yes, indeed, that should have been on the list of Coenesque Events of the Day.

By: Nemo

Nemo — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:19:06 +0000

Will Bachmann be returning to Washington? I somehow got signed up for Taryl Clark's mailing list (I guess because I signed that "censure Bachmann" petition in 2008), and they make it sound like Clark is winning, but I think they might be biased.

By: Albatross

Albatross — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:48:07 +0000

My understanding from Mark Ritchie (who goes to my church) is that most of the voter fraud is felons who vote because they don’t know that they are not supposed to. In many cases, they have tried to find out and gotten contradictory answers, so they vote, unaware that this will put them right back into the product-handling division of the for-profit prison industry. I know anecdotally of a man who tried to figure out if he could vote, voted anyway, found out this crime violated his probation, and lost his Section 8 housing and his dog when he was re-imprisoned. For voting. Well, for violating his parole by voting illegally, but you get the idea.

The only misgiving I have about the death of that young woman is that it must have been awfully opportunistic of the driver. The couple apparently were walking in the street, and all of the roads by the U are one-way, so either he was lurking a block back waiting for them to step off the curb (which you think other drivers might have objected to), or he happened upon them as he was driving, recognized the couple, and decided to hit them. It’s almost as easy to believe it was coincidence, he’d have run over anybody on the street at that time and place.

The football thing just makes me even MORE eager to have Hennepin County officials jam another stadium tax down my throat. But really, why would we expect a bunch of knuckledragging testosterone addicts to be any less corrupt than our own federal Congress?

The sad thing about the story of the traffic accident is that this happens all the time. I lost a good friend when his car was in a minor fender-bender on an icy road. He got out to exchange insurance info and was struck and killed by a third car hitting the same icy patch. What’s really appalling is the amount of death and mayhem we accept as part and parcel of the automotive lifestyle.

By the way, you left out the fellow who was killed riding a bike yesterday, but then all the sympathy dried up (despite the fact that he could have been almost any biker in that bike lane) because it turned out he stole the bike. The magical thinking crew now simply see this as faster work by their Big Daddy In the Sky than is usually the case.