I was actually not clear on what was being protested at the time, but I was busy. My first child was a couple of weeks old during the Battle for Seattle.

I got in the background of my share of protest pictures when you were in elementary school.

If I were a betting man, I'd put you and ST as approximately the same age.

Also, the carbon trading schemes are horrific. Often resulting in more greenhouse gasses. e.g. refrigerant manufacturers making refrigerant solely for the purpose of getting credits when they capture (destroy) some of their emissions. Some companies make as much as 94% of their revenue from credits. Also, indigenous 4th world people get kicked out of rain forests so that the forests can be preserved as part of a credit so someone else can burn coal.

You're more clear now. That's what matters.

Funny story, I was cocktailing a few years ago, and started talking to a young dude who said he was from Seattle. I asked him where he was on N30. He didn't have the slightest idea WTF I was talking about. But before I could say "WTF were you in a coma"... he said, oh, yeah, I was in a coma that year.

Really... did you get to march with M.King Jr ??

Possible. I just figured most of the people (other than cops) in that picture are 20ish and I was 30ish at the time.

Ok, maybe you were more than 20ish in that picture.

I'm 47 now. Didn't march with MLK. Here's me blocking traffic for a different King Jr. though.

Sweet !!!1!

This is the SF Bay bridge, the day after Mayday 1992. The different King Jr was Rodney. Did you go to Cal?

Yep. That was my last semester - on the 7 year program.

Well, good job. Thanks for messing up a few bay area seattlelou's commutes.

As a practical matter N30 crippled the WTO. The TPP needs the same treatment.

Does the anti-globalization movement get many right wing types who are against world government? It really should as the trade agreements hamstring local/national governments. I've mostly followed things from environmental/solar stuff - like Ontario had to scrap a big solar project because it included jobs and local manufacturing aspects that were going to bring law suits for violating trade rules - but there have to be a lot of ways these agreements essentially infringe on sovereignty. I mean, all international agreements do that, but these agreements can have so many far reaching and unforeseen implications.

I assume you mean 'did'. In a word... no.

However, and this was one of the things that both cracked me up, and was cool at the same time. In the middle of the chaos during N30, there was a group of about 4-5 ~20yo nerdy looking John Birchers, who actually had a soapbox (an illegal weapon, according to the SPD),,, and they were handling out bottled water along with their propaganda.

Journalmalism:

oh look liberals pulling a hoover!

I get being annoyed with the secrecy around TPP, but you're just arguing against free trade guys.

Yes.

I'm ambivalent (not indifferent) about it though.

Arguing against courts backed by big states forcing small states to be responsible for the lost mythical future profits of corporations when the small states change their laws is hardly an argument against free trade.

I had an interesting conversation about this stuff with my (black) best friend. There's the practical realities of what he might talk about with his son, and that's all well and good. However, the "how to act around cops" conversation is so out of place in the "how things should be" world of an internet discussion forum. (and so silly to be judging kids for how they acted after the fact).

I get why it bothers people to get yelled at for just saying what they think is pragmatic, but like what the **** is the value of pragmatic advice given to a bunch of dudes on the internet?

Developed countries would like the benefits of free trade to be protected. This provision allows enforcement of trade agreements. There is nothing mythical about lost profits, tax revenues, and jobs.

Apparently Reason has been subpoenaed for the identities of various commenters on a blog thread who made various hot-tempered remarks in the wake of the Ross Ulbricht sentencing. Obviously completely off-the-hook insane legal harassment, but how does a US Attorney's office even find out about this stuff? Is there a Sedition Squad out there trawling blog comments for potentially actionable material? Is there some kind of automated system analyzing... all written material on the internet?... for material that can be targeted by subpoena? Was the judge just vanity-googling herself and sicced the US Attorney on people who were mean to her? Hard to say which option is least disturbing.

Interesting post bobman really enjoyed reading the popehat link.

You're overlooking the most obvious: people they had internet feuds with snitched on them. The other commentators.

I report all of Lou's post on the see something, say something White House page.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczyn...est#.cujLXxdDD


Might be time for prominent white evangelical leaders to address child molestation

I'm very much okay with this subpoena investigating possible domestic terrorism from a segment of the population that I suspect is more ideologically inclined to commit domestic terrorism that the average person.

BREAKING NEWS: You also can't yell "fire" in a movie theater.

Is there actually an official Internet Butthurt Complaint Form? Did the tipsters print off the joke one and send it to the US Atty?