CityBeat: Drunk, With Power
If the first incident with the two police officers and Ms. Linthicum happened on a college campus, it would have been called rape by nearly everyone. I call it rape. If someone is clearly drunk, and a police officer is a good judge at determining intoxication, then these police officers would have knowingly had non-consensual sex with such a drunken person.

Both cops are gone, but these cops should have been put on trial. It is strange that this issue did not get the rise from the boycotters that other police misconduct produced. I wonder if the boycotters got a look at Ms. Linthicum and lost interest. I applaud City Beat for following up on this story and giving the victim a chance to speak her side of the story.

Talking Points Memo: The Cracker Defense! Josh Marshall picks up the story Chris Anderson and I discussed earlier this week. Josh was one of the people, if not the person, who kept the Trent Lott segregation story going. If you have not read his blog before, I highly recommend it.

Focus on Square, analyst tells city
The ideas are great, but with guys like Phil Heimlich in county government hording the suburban dollars, nothing will be spent on the city that can't go in Indian Hill or Blue Ask, or just not happen at all.

John Schlagetter makes observations on Chris Anderson's comments regarding so called segregation in Cincinnati. Chris has followed up on yesterday's remarks with more.

Love on the Rocks
It appears that John Cranley, Cincinnati Councilman, was dating older woman Leslie Ghiz, who is a former city administrator now running for City Council. They are just friends at the present. I guess the sparks could not fly between a democrat and republican enough to start a fire, even here in Cincinnati. Well, maybe in springtime, things might change.

Bengals Hire Lewis
I was going to write about this, but Chris Anderson has done so, admirably.

Ohio Senate Republicans defend their new leader
The wagons are circling as expected. They are going to hunker down for the winter and hope the cavalry comes before the war drums play again.