With 175 comments, I realize I’m a little late to this party. But did he really write this (with regard to the Parks Department wanting to curtail bonfires) in his column today:Memo to parks honchos: Next time you want to save the North Pole from a meltdown or protect equatorial pygmies from sunburns by reducing Seattle carbon emissions, don’t douse hometown tradition.Uh, wow. Isn’t that a little over the line even for a take-no-prisoners, speaking-up-for-common-sense, no-namby-pamby tough guy like Jamieson? Oddly, not one of the 175 commentators seems to have found this to be a bizarre statement.
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