http://www.stevepomper.com Seattle Author/Cop Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:05:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It’s hard for cops, especially street cops, to watch TV news programs when the public is misunderstanding police procedures, and commenting based on a particular video snippet of an incident. This is especially frustrating when it comes from folks normally friendly to police. Yes, I do have an example, ... http://www.stevepomper.com/?p=579 There’s this strange situation, or perhaps it’s a condition, where reasonable, polite, want-to-get-along, conservatives, independents, and libertarians, Tea Partiers, sometimes hold back in expressing their enthusiasm for various conservative-libertarian causes or personalities. When this happens it proves that the left is successful in demonizing any thing and any one ... http://www.stevepomper.com/?p=575 Throughout the years phrases, affectations, fads come and go, but the strangest ones are, oh what would you call them, key words, that pop up as common affectations. I've noticed a new one that's been around for, I'd say, the past year anyway. It's the word: Perfect. I started noticing ... http://www.stevepomper.com/?p=572 I heard someone talking about how they could have made a better movie than…. I can’t remember the flick, but it got me to thinking, as a writer—a creator—about all those people out there who think it’s so easy to write, to create something worthwhile. I think many of ... http://www.stevepomper.com/?p=569 We often talk about the differences between the political right and left in America, and those differences are often glaring. One of those differences is an interest in American history—good and bad. Once one reads history, one realizes why the left is so resistant to it, or we ... http://www.stevepomper.com/?p=563 It’s funny how, as a writer, you can wait, and wait, and wait…what was I saying? Oh, yeah, and wait, for a break—little or big. However, while waiting in this biz is unavoidable, overt effort is often necessary. When I got my first agent, I’d just engaged in, to ... http://www.stevepomper.com/?p=559 In Danny Westnead’s contentious column, ‘Self-made’ myth divides us (Seattle Times, July 26th, 2010), he seems to come to his keyboard with some mighty preconceived and insulting assumptions about Eastern Washington farmers. Westnead summarizes Senate candidate Clint Didier’s reason for running for congress as, “…to preserve the America ... http://www.stevepomper.com/?p=551 Today I quit wondering why the President still enjoys remarkably high poll numbers (actually they are freakishly low after only eighteen months, but still relatively high), considering the damage he and his progressive party have done, and continue to do, to our country, ramming their progressive agenda down American's ... http://www.stevepomper.com/?p=548 The intricacies of race relations can be difficult to discuss, but it must be addressed, if for nothing else, intellectually honest and self-reflection, on both sides. In this instance I refer to the paramount racial intensity in our society, which exists, much of it unnecessarily, ... http://www.stevepomper.com/?p=543 As a police officer it’s maddening when people, from the most casual observer to the sharpest political pundit, gets it completely wrong. Now, I know we all get things wrong at times, but when we get those things wrong, and worse, in a very confident or even arrogant manner, ... http://www.stevepomper.com/?p=534