Comments on: WTF?

By: Clark Dirth

Clark Dirth — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:22:48 +0000

Interesting blog dude Thank you

By: Mihalis

Mihalis — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:56:02 +0000

You’re more than welcome to have an opinion, Gregg.

Just keep in mind, their paper, their rules.

By: Gregg Smith

Gregg Smith — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:02:14 +0000

Let’s see. I didn’t like the newspaper coverage. Mark asserts that only blacks and hispanics are prosecuted for marijuana violations, therefore, I think, the coverage is fine and marijuana should be legal. I disagree with his premise. I’m not black, so therefore I cannot understand what it is like to be black and smoke marijuana when, apparently, Mark says whites are allowed to smoke marijuana.

So…I shouldn’t have an opinion on the Tribune’s coverage?

By: Mihalis

Mihalis — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:57:34 +0000

Gregg Smith:

I don’t appreciate my local newspaper putting a couple girls sharing a bowl on the front page

No, you’d prefer it if the paper lied to the public and depicted the use “in a clinical setting” rather than using a picture of the actual event that they were covering.

Starting stop watch now. Just want to see how long it’ll take you to delete this comment. I think I’m on a roll.

By: david

david — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:55:18 +0000

“I beg you spend one day black or Hispanic and report back. It’s easy for a white guy in a society dominated by white guys, living in a white city in a white state to talk about how reality is for those who aren’t so privileged.”

Not just convenient – pretty damned presumptuous, too, on several counts.

By: david

david — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:54:15 +0000

Maybe I can persuade the Montana Legislature to recognize that smoking cigarettes is “medicinal” for me – calms me down, works off stress, etc – and then I can be allowed to smoke in public areas.

By: Gregg Smith

Gregg Smith — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:02:09 +0000

By the way, isn’t your ‘rebuttal’ a bit nonsensical? You beg me to spend a day as a black man? How would I do that?

Can I be President Obama for my day?

Tell me too, how the fact that I don’t appreciate my local newspaper putting a couple girls sharing a bowl on the front page is a racial issue?…especially when I haven’t even argued that marijuana should or should not be legal.

By: Gregg Smith

Gregg Smith — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:59:25 +0000

Oh, but you know how it is, huh? Pretty convenient argument.

By: Mark T

Mark T — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:55:52 +0000

I beg you spend one day black or Hispanic and report back. It’s easy for a white guy in a society dominated by white guys, living in a white city in a white state to talk about how reality is for those who aren’t so privileged.

But then, that would be ‘your reality’. It sounds a little like Alice’s world.

By: Gregg Smith

Gregg Smith — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:31:18 +0000

Absolutely. But your comments on a blog do not define my reality.