August 2, 2004

Jake has a searing comment today about Deschutes County Sheriff Les Stiles' move to impose quotas ... oops, performance standards on his deputies.

You wanna know *my* two cents?

Well, the Sheriff's a corrupt asshole (yes, that's right, I said it - I just hope now I can get internet access in jail...), The Bulletin is a right-wing media whore (did they *ever* publish any stories dealing with the huge world-wide anti-war protests when the Iraq war started? Sure - on the last page of the paper, in a tiny 4 x 2 inch hole...), and together, they have the power to intimidate the locals into thinking *their way*...

Makes me wanna move back to Bay-Area-hippie-land, where at least people were critical enough to call it bullshit when they saw bullshit ...

Thank goodness for Barney.