Sadly, outside of the families and friends who have lost people to the tragedy—and maybe a few New Yorkers in general—the unfortunate majority of those who invoke <reverb>9/11</reverb> employ it as frothy, rhetorical masturbation to punctuate their own grandstanding, demagoguery, and ideologies. Partisan journalists on all sides of the biased media lap up the secretions in their attempts to snowball you, dear media consumer. more ›

(Or their caretakers.) What to do when someone is impeding the flow of evening traffic so he can water some flowers in a traffic circle? Take care of it Rainier Beach-style: Punch him! Lessons learned: 1) Let the traffic circle garden die, because your fellow citizens obviously don't give a shit. 2) Don't squirt people with your hose, even if they're moving traffic cones. 3) Don't send 60-year-old men to the hospital just for blocking traffic at a minor intersection. 4) No good deed goes unpunished. Aside to the tough guy: Turn yourself in, jerkface. more ›