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Jackson Gets All Police-State on Cleveland

The Plain Dealer has a report on Mayor Jackson’s new anti-crime plan, and well it’s a bit on the Charles Bronson side. According to Jackson the new plan is ”going to be very aggressive. They’re going to be shaking up the trees and beating the bushes.” As always the mayor was extremely clear. Officers are currently in the process of shaking bushes on the east side so if you want to commit some crime now would be a good time. Jackson also warns that this new aggressive police force will lead to more confrontations, meaning that the tree in front of your house may be losing a branch or two before we can stop the drug trade in Cleveland. War on drugs, war on terror, war on trees and bushes. What a progression.

Move Over Hillary, Here Comes Dennis!

While it may have been a huge victory for Hillary Clinton in yesterday’s New Hampshire primary let’s not forget the major progress Dennis Kucinich made. It looks like spending most of his time and resources campaigning in New Hampshire paid off for Dennis with the Cleveland Congressman claiming 1 percent of the primary vote! It’s the same as in 2004! He hasn’t lost any ground at all! Let’s give it up for Dennis!

Some Real Quick Shit

It’s a slow news day. In case you were black-out drunk last night and didn’t hear the apocalypse coming, there was a big fucking storm with 60 mph winds that knocked a bunch of shit down and left thousands of people without power. There, I just recapped every major Cleveland news source’s lead story for the next 3 days. So moving on…

People may be fleeing Cleveland, but they’re coming back for the zoo. 2007 marks the second year in a row that attendance at the zoo has increased, this year there was a whopping 1.25 million visitors. Did I just say whopping? In other news The Plain Dealer has passed their food column onto a new writer and with his introductory article today I can already say I like this guy. For one, no photo! No creepy undertones, questionable mind-state, or incest questioning for this guy! Instead Joe Crea just shows that he writes better than most of the PD staff, has a background, and might actually make for an interesting read. Let’s eat Joe. Meanwhile The Free Times is still trying to cash in on the fame of Harvey Pekar with an article about Pekar’s nerdy pal Toby Radloff. Whatever, it’s still more relevant to Cleveland than the C-Notes piece on eHarmony being run by a gay-hating, anti-sex overlord. Or as they are more commonly known, evangelical Christians. BAM! I’m outta here.