No, I don’t mean stepping on the scales at home.

I mean the weekend editorials. Some excellent ones, in my opinion, and I can say it because I didn’t write any of them! So way to go, edit- head colleagues.

Anyway, treat yourself if you haven’t read them yet. And then, it’s your turn to weigh in.

Saturday: On electronic monitoring for high-level sex offenders. We’re for it.

Prevention of sex crimes isn’t an exact science yet. It may never be.
But the governor’s decision has the potential to make life safer for Washington’s children.

Sunday: On off-duty pay counting toward city-taxpayer-paid pension for cops. We’re definitely against.

Spokane isn’t the only city in Washington that adds unofficial pay to official salaries. It’s a budget bender in Seattle, Tacoma and other cities, too. State Rep. Barbara Bailey, R-Oak Harbor, says she intends to get to the bottom of this.
That’s encouraging, because the obligation for taxpayers should end when an officer’s shift ends. It’s as simple as that.

Another Sunday edit on “bait” killings of suspected Iraqi snipers by Americans.

To cleanse our reputation, it is essential that the military justice system investigate suspected wrongdoing vigorously and, when called for, prosecute…
But it isn’t enough to punish atrocities, we have to prevent them. It is up to President Bush as commander in chief and to the policymakers in Congress to demand that America’s traditional ideals be preserved. We can’t have it both ways; we can’t claim moral authority while using battlefield stress to rationalize the abuse of the human rights we claim to defend.