Alpha Broadcasting has a building downtown where its radio stations are represented as that posters plastered with three each of that type of silhouette Clip Art.\u00c2\u00a0 Freedom 970 has a man barbecuing, a Soldier Saluting, and a woman shopping — denoting that, apparently, this is the height of Patriotism.<\/p>\n
And Bush said, “Go shopping” after 9\/11.<\/p>\n
It’s a conservative station — natch, recently revamped with the addition of Sean Hannity and (because he comes with Sean Hannity) Mark Levine.\u00c2\u00a0 This is too bad — Phil Hendrie — a hold-over from previous corporate control at a less ideologically-straitened station — they clearly have deigned to get rid of — has been bumped to the wee hours of the night — in wait for eventual dropping.<\/p>\n
Freedom’s Just another word for …?<\/p>\n
Down aways, at the Max Stop in front of the Courthouse, I’m not paying attention to much of anything when a suit security detail of one sort or other — not the bulky type, but a management sort — shouts “I saw that!”\u00c2\u00a0 I look over, and see that he is communicating to this sort of pan handling-looking — reasonably clean — 20 something, I guess.\u00c2\u00a0 He shouts, “What?\u00c2\u00a0 What?”\u00c2\u00a0 The security says, “That little transaction.”\u00c2\u00a0 “I was just giving change for a dollar.\u00c2\u00a0 What?\u00c2\u00a0 You gonna hassle me?”\u00c2\u00a0 Security points to a camera.\u00c2\u00a0 Life goes on.<\/p>\n
I am confused by this scene.\u00c2\u00a0 Down from this lad is a woman, scuzzier looking, with a sign of that “Need Money to Pay off Ninjas” variety, more conspicuous than this guy — so it can’t be an outlawing of “Spare Change?”<\/em> Did he exchange the marijuana, or security believe he did so?\u00c2\u00a0 The latter possibility is unfortunate — the guy’s not going to have the benefit of the doubt if this goes up further — and that camera had better show something definitive for his sake.\u00c2\u00a0 As it were, I’m inclined to view this as a sort of act of Intimidation — “You’ve been warned”.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, I look around, planting three quick figures for silhouetting purposes.\u00c2\u00a0 Something vaguely iconic about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alpha Broadcasting has a building downtown where its radio stations are represented as that posters plastered with three each of that type of silhouette Clip Art.\u00c2\u00a0 Freedom 970 has a man barbecuing, a Soldier Saluting, and a woman shopping — denoting that, apparently, this is the height of Patriotism. And Bush said, “Go shopping” after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5873,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions\/5873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}