{"id":2144,"date":"2008-07-23T15:51:45","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T19:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2008-07-23T15:52:15","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T19:52:15","slug":"also-it-bumps-into-stuff-and-has-a-hard-time-shaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/also-it-bumps-into-stuff-and-has-a-hard-time-shaving","title":{"rendered":"“Also, it bumps into stuff and has a hard time shaving.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an article in the NYTimes today<\/a> about how the police in Providence, RI have to deal with antiterrorism guidelines instead of, y’know, crime. The chief of police has one of the more bizarre quotes I’ve read this week:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our nation, that I love, is like a great giant that can deal with a problem when it focuses on it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Colonel Esserman, who has been chief since 2003, when he was hired by Mayor David N. Cicilline. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But it seems like that giant of a nation is like a Cyclops, with but one eye, that can focus only on one problem at a time.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s an article in the NYTimes today about how the police in Providence, RI have to deal with antiterrorism guidelines instead of, y’know, crime. The chief of police has one of the more bizarre quotes I’ve read this week: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our nation, that I love, is like a great giant that can deal with a problem … <\/p>\n

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