Let's Not Assign Blame
This story was written for a Bar Room Writers Offensive in March 2015. The theme was "This is Your Fault, Not Mine." Blame is the opposite of good. Bad…That’s the word I was looking for. Blame is bad, and it is…also bad…that there’s a lot of blame going around the city of Seattle right now. That’s what people tend to do when something goes as horribly wrong as it did last week, but I just don’t think that blame is in any way productive… I see a couple people here looking a bit confused. I assume that you’ve suffered some sort of head trauma recently or have come directly from one of those religious retreats where they don’t let you use the Internet. As everybody else knows, it was last week that Seattle attempted to tackle two large issues that the city was dealing with. Problem one was that Seattle had too many homeless people. They’d done a survey last month and found, not counting people in shelters or transitional housing, nearly three thousand pe
