1. fastfeat - July 1, 2013

   Working one county over from Sanford, FL, I have to say that the local media sure seem to be “pulling for” Zimmerman, imho.117F in Las Vegas ties an all-time record high yesterday. And it’s only June.Sorry to hear about your mom. I hope she gets some good news. Hang in there, man. 

2. Suzette N. Hays - July 4, 2013

   Scott Campbell claimed he was filming a police line outside city hall on 3 November when officer Victor Garcia shot him in the groin with a bean bag fired from a 12-gauge shotgun .

3. cunning linguist - July 5, 2013

   Best of luck and a speedy recovery for your mom.Sanford could get to be quite interesting if Zimmerman walks, but, frankly, this thing has stunk to high heaven from the start. It’s quite rare for both the chief of police and the DA himself to show up at the crime scene in the middle of the night when the victim was a black kid.

4. cunning linguist - July 5, 2013

   BTW, thanks for changing the Captcha riddle format. I found it impossible to post a comment under the picture format, and no matter how many times I requested a new password, none was ever e-mailed to me.

5. Mugsy - July 5, 2013

   Yes, I too hate that text-picture Captcha everyone uses. I can never read the first/nonsense word.

   The Math Captcha I’m using now, I first set it to offer either digits or text-for-numbers, and the “digits” version failed every time but the “text numbers” version stops ALL bots with a 99% success rate. And it’s SOOOO much more user-friendly.

6. Logan E. Davidson - July 6, 2013

   This would be a bad situation in any case, but it is made worse by the fact that it is 100% preventable. We know how to make the economy grow more rapidly and generate jobs. But politicians are using old superstitions and deliberate lies to scare people aware from the sort of fiscal stimulus that would get the economy back on track.

7. Erin Moody - July 29, 2013

   When I was a sophomore in college my bubble burst. It was neither the first time nor the last in my lifetime. A friend and I had just left campus in my car. We had picked up film equipment for a project that we planned to do latter in the week. Just when we reached a busy intersection, two unmarked cars appeared out of nowhere and cut us off. In what seemed like seconds a fleet of marked police cars arrived on the scene, sirens wailing. A mob of barking police officers surrounded the car, guns drawn and pointed at us. Amid hollers of “Get the fuck out the car or we’ll blow your fuckin’ heads off!” they gave us a contradictory command: they told us to put our hands out the window and get out the car. I can remember the split second of terror and paralysis when I made eye contact with my friend and we realized that we could not do both simultaneously. With guns pressed to our heads, they dragged us out of the car, handcuffed us, and threw us face down on the hot asphalt.

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