The Ink: Five murders last week, 246.
- Tereem Tayor, 21, 1700 block of W. Saratoga Street
- John Dowery, 38, 700 block of Bartlett Avenue (more on that story in the Sun today)
- Shawn Reed, 32, 400 block of East 22nd Street
- Undentified man; age unknown, 5100 block of Reisterstown Road
- Bernard Simon, 14, 1200 block of Shellbanks Road.
Demetrious Williams, 18, was charged in the beating death of Cecil Saunders, 28, an employee of Executive Inn Motel in the 3600 block of Pulaski Highway.
More details about the murder of one-month-old Joshua Watson. Warning: deeply depressing.
A man was shot in the wrist in the parking lot of Waverly Shopping Center; a man was shot in the back and arm in the 600 block of Mosher Street.
A Reisterstown Road jewelry store is allegedly a front for a drug-money laundromat. Owner Eugene Petasky was arrested Monday night. Petasky, 56, lives in Pikesville and also serves on the Board of Directors for the Children's Cancer Foundation.
What a great idea: Frederick police are posting open arrest warrants on their Web site.
W. David Stoffregen, former president of mechanical contracting firm Poole and Kent Co, pled guilty yesterday to racketeering conspiracy, mail fraud and filing a false tax return, and has agreed to testify against his codefendant, former state senator Thomas L. Bromwell.
More on the death of HoCo Marine Cpl. Brian Mathews, killed by a drunk driver a day after he returned from Iraq.
Ew, ew, ewie ew. A Westminister housewife, Melissa Lynn Kozimor, 27, got five years of probation (14 years suspended) for sexually abusing two teenage girls and having intercourse with a teenage boy while her husband and daughters were sleeping upstairs. She blames alcohol and PPD. Speaking of sexually offensive females, what the hell's going on with Britney and all the clam shots? Three in one week! (Warning: don't open that link at work .. or if you're easily offended!) But seriously, if she was an old man, she'd be in jail!
Speaking of grody flashers: County police arrested peeping tom/flasher Clinton Gardner, 38 (left). How much would you freak out if you saw that guy out your window?!
Headline of the day: "Md. Residents Say Dead Cat Smell Remains"
Greg Kane uses the word "Brobdingnagian" in a timely essay about the selective application of racial sensitivity.
Here's my question: as my 5-year-old pointed out, nobody actually has black skin, so why do we use that term?
And what's up with "African-American"? Doesn't that imply someone is only half an American, a recent immigrant?
ps. I'll be on the Ed Norris show on 105.7 this Friday from 10:30-11:30 a.m. Tune in!
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nobody uses "african-american" anymore except severely uptight people.
also, do you have any information on last night's littering incident up the block from my house?
the laundering jewler link is broken.
"And what's up with "African-American"? Doesn't that imply someone is only half an American, a recent immigrant?"
Um, no? Doesn't it imply the same thing as Anglo-American, Italian-American, Irish-American or Asian-American? That you are an American of a particular descent, that your Americanness is within a particular context?
And WTF on that statatory mommy only getting 5 years probation for two counts of sexual abuse and one count of intercourse with 13 and 14 years olds?!
I loved her statement:
"The only mistake I made was drinking alcohol. That led me to the mess I'm in," she said tearfully, according to an account Tuesday in the Carroll County Times. "Now I have to walk around with a brand on my back."
What the hell? She could get at least a 5 year mandatory sentence just for her denial of accountablility.
Sorry for the multiple comments, but back to the African-American point, like I was saying, the African-Anglo-Irish-Italian-German-Asian-Latino-American terms don’t bother me at all. What gets my goat is the term “Amerasian” to denote mixed race children of either Asian/European-American or Asian/African-American descent - as though their Asian half isn’t American. I suppose it would make some sense for these children born in other countries with a single american parent, but the term is used in a more broad context towards all children with one Asian parent, and I have to say, it is rather offensive.
10:30 - 11:30 am or pm? i never listen to the radio in general.
a.m.
You can get streaming audio off of the site so you don't have to use an actual radio.
Is your objective a) to be politically correct or b) to not get jacked?
Charles Village is the most attractive nasty ghetto you'll ever see. I wouldn't read too much into race: walk on the other side of the street whenever you encounter a young, single male after dark without other folks around. Unless you'd like to get jacked and be poltically superior.
Baltimore rots. Get Out of It.
Thanks for the correction, eeb.
And that's the other thing, 'African-American' does assume a particular descent and excludes the possibility that someone has a diverse background.
I'm just going to start calling everyone "brownish" or "pinkish" I think.
Yeah, "the only mistake I made was drinking alcohol."
YIKE!
Do you know if the Ed Norris show offers podcasts for download? I'm interested to hear what you have to say on the show, but unfortunately I can't listen when you'll be on.
I'm sorry, John, but how exactly is Charles Village a "nasty ghetto?"
Is it the lack of goods and services? True, we have two grocery stores, but one doesn't even need them considering the weekly farmers' market and corner stores. Then there are the numerous banks, including two Bank of America branches. How about the video store with Baltimore's largest collection of independent and foreign film? Or maybe the many neighborhood bars, restaurants and coffee houses? You must not like the variety. Ethnic (including the best Indian in all of Baltimore), health food, cafes, bar food, subs and pizza...
Well its obviously not goods and services, so you must be referring to the lack of office space. It's true, there isn't much of this important indicator of urban health, so long as you ignore the law and graffic design offices on 25th, the office building and warehouses that line Charles from 26th through 29th. And you would of course have to overlook the tens of thousands of bright minds who work on the undergraduate campus of one of the world's greatest health institutions (its called Hopkins).
But that can't be what makes CV a ghetto. Oh, we know! It's the diversity! One of the most racially diverse neighborhoods in the mid-Atlantic. It attracts everyone from students to professionals to artists of all ages.
Or you could be pointing out the beauitful urban parks and lovely historic buildings and homes. The painted ladies on Abell, the breathtaking mansions on Charles, the dome of Sts. Philip and James Catholic Church.
Actually, when it comes down to it, Charles Village has everything: goods and services, culture and beauty, diversity. and that which it doesn't have isn't far away. John, you need reexamine your distorted definition of "ghetto," which apparently includes any neighborhood within the city lines, no matter how healthy and comfortable it might be.
hey league-dude, i feel ya, but you really shouldn't bother with that here. galt's a smart guy but he seems to hate everything, sometimes i'm not sure what his motivations are. most of the other people who perpetuate this anti-charles village attitude are reactionaries who got their car broken into one too many times or maybe even got robbed once and have now made it their life's mission to get everyone to realize what a terrible place it is. i once ventured the theory that it's because they look like targets and was shouted down by people telling me i had just been lucky and that this is america, they have the right to look like targets if they want, which is true on some level i guess, but is still an exasperating argument that i don't really know how to counter, even though i can feel in my gut that's fallacious.
We won't bother with it here anymore then. But it is distressing to see people dismissing one of Baltimore's healthiest urban neighborhoods just because they've had bad personal experiences. I am ne member of The League and live in Charles Village (another Leaguer did at one point) and have been the victim of two crimes in the neighborhood - more than in any other Baltimore neighborhod I've lived in. But those experiences have not changed my objective judgement of Charles Village as a terrific place to live one's life.
i don't get it, what's "the league?"
Re. podcasts, I don't think they do. They should!
CBS radio's web savvy = poor.
It's a shame. We both need a good ad agency.
"The League" does have a point, ghettos are where people of a particular ethnic or religious group are made to live in a city. Charles Village IS diverse.
Wow.... that is SO NOT what a ghetto is. A ghetto is a rundown crime ridden neighborhood and it has no racial protocal or boundaries. U could be in a ghetto and see a melting pot of races. Monument st area = ghetto. Baltimore/Hilton area = ghetto. Harford county = ghetto. Dundalk = ghetto.
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