After learning that someone had posted the transcript from last weekend's prostitution sting on City Desk and the Sexist, I had to ask myself: What the fuck is our problem? Aren't we the alternative weekly in town? Aren't finger-wagging and gotcha blog items the purview of the nannying prudes at the Post and the Examiner, for chrissakes? Instead of defending this man's right to pay someone for sex--why stop at shoplifters?--we paraded him out on our blog and suggested that he was unqualified to do his duties as a police officer. A few days later, we posted a conversation that he had in a hotel room which he did not know was wired. Is it news? Sure. But where was the critical eye? Big bonuses, prison pralines, the PCP scourge, crooked Yelp, and Mark Jenkins, after the jump.

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A couple weeks ago, Mother Jones outed longtime gun control activist Mary McFate as undercover NRA spy Mary Lou Sapone. Read the expose here for her history of infiltrating anti-gun groups. Now, activists are spreading the word to the people in the only way they know how: alarmist street fliers. I picked this one off a post at 18th St. & Columbia Rd. NW:

Sorry I jacked your flier, guys. Next time, try wheat-paste.