The Harvard professor who got harassed by the cops when they responded to a 911 call about a possible break in shouldn't be pissed at the cops. He should be pissed at his neighbor who didn't recognize him and called the cops. The cops were just responding. Maybe they were jerky to him when they got there (which I do not condone), but they wouldn't be there if someone else didn't call in thinking he was up to no good. And it's not like the neighbor called the cops because he was sitting on his porch relaxing and reading a book. He was trying to wedge open a door. Which looks a hell of a lot like breaking in to a spying neighbor who lacks the balls to hollar across the street, "Hey Henry...is that you?"
I'm gonna go on a limb and say it doesn't really matter though because if the cops didn't respond to the call and someone did in fact break in to the professors home, he would probably say that cops are racist because they wouldn't respond to a call in a black neighborhood.
The further we come, the longer we have to go.
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Why I Love My Husband
A few months back my husband was able to figure out how to fix a $600 wall mountable TV for about 39 cents. He hung the TV proudly, and rightfully so, in the den/computer room. Ever since then he's been talking about adding a DVD player to the setup. I have, on multiple occasions reminded him that we don't need a DVD player in the den. As proof, I asked him to recall a time that he wanted to watch a DVD, and was not able to do so on the main living room TV. Of course he couldn't name a single time.
When he came home from work today, he began adding the DVD player to the den TV. He was walking in and out of the garage, drilling holes in the wall, and the whole 9 yards. As he crawled under the desk I was trying to work at for the third time, here's how our conversation went:
ME: (Seeing the DVD player and knowing full well what he was doing) What the hell are you doing under there anyway?
HIM: (Pointing to the wires hanging from the TV to the DVD player that sits below) That is ugly, I'm running the wires through the wall from here to there so you can't seem them. Whaddaya think of that?
ME: I think it's riddiculous and uneccesary.
HIM: (In an honest and playful tone) Yes. But it's not ugly.
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When he came home from work today, he began adding the DVD player to the den TV. He was walking in and out of the garage, drilling holes in the wall, and the whole 9 yards. As he crawled under the desk I was trying to work at for the third time, here's how our conversation went:
ME: (Seeing the DVD player and knowing full well what he was doing) What the hell are you doing under there anyway?
HIM: (Pointing to the wires hanging from the TV to the DVD player that sits below) That is ugly, I'm running the wires through the wall from here to there so you can't seem them. Whaddaya think of that?
ME: I think it's riddiculous and uneccesary.
HIM: (In an honest and playful tone) Yes. But it's not ugly.
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