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Apologies to Sharon Lee and LIHI for the inconvenience and embarrassment this tenant dispute has caused. Direct action does that sometimes. It’s no surprise she would call SeaSol anarchists — twice in eight paragraphs! — or try to impugn them as trolls from the right, even if three minutes on the Internet puts that charge to rest. She’s hurt, she has interests to protect, and calling them racists and anarchists is easier than actually resolving the original dispute, which could happen for around 1/20 of one percent of her annual salary.

Kudos too to the Examiner for choosing sides in so many of the important issues in our community. After braving the great Utopia-vs.-Groupon battle, it’s a wonder they have any energy left. As their fig-leaf disclaimer indicates, they reserve the right to decline to publish abusive articles. But if you’re not going to exercise that right, you could at least do your readers the favor of reading up on both sides of an issue before handing the mic to just one of them. That’s how a newspaper would do it. Those folks have really taken to heart their mission of out-Weeklying the Weekly.

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