Posted Thu, Apr 9, 4:17 a.m.

He would run, Forrest, run.

Posted Fri, Apr 3, 7:01 a.m.

Wow. 27 posts on the cat opinion piece. You wouldn't get half that many on a child abuse story. People value their stupid pets more than they value other people. I hope the Seahawks trade for Michael Vick.

Posted Tue, Mar 31, 6:13 a.m.

Obama needs to educate the Europeans that their economies are as bad as ours. We admit it; they don't.

Posted Mon, Mar 30, 7:25 a.m.

A Democrat may flip-flop and raise our taxes. No surprise there.

Posted Sat, Mar 28, 10:59 a.m.

Funny! Imagine if we had a president who mangled the English language daily and embarrassed us before the world for eight long years.

Posted Fri, Mar 27, 12:55 p.m.

I don't think Salish Sea is a very poetic name, either. It could be confused with Septic Sea, Sewage Sea, or even Semen Sea.

Posted Fri, Mar 27, 7:26 a.m.

First Pluto now Puget Sound. Pike's Peak better watch your back, homes. The lunatics are running the asylum. When are rehearsals for Marat/Sade?

Posted Thu, Mar 26, 7:14 a.m.

Obama needs to reach down and check if he has a pair. He is getting rolled by the Democratic Congress and appearing increasingly in over his head. Time to man up, lose the teleprompter, and take charge, President Obama!

Posted Wed, Mar 25, 6:30 a.m.

If the M's and Seahawks ever start winning it will be to the Sounders detriment.

Posted Tue, Mar 24, 7:34 a.m.

What this town needs is a community organizer to get the people out in the streets with snow shovels.

Posted Mon, Mar 23, 8:01 a.m.

sarah, Of course I don’t want to harm anyone. Your clumsy straw man is as artless as it is untruthful.

Posted Sun, Mar 22, 3:45 p.m.

Americans should not possess nor carry guns in any circumstances. The government is chartered to provide your protection.

Posted Sun, Mar 22, 3:42 p.m.

I hadn’t even finished the first sentence of this article when my blood ran cold and I began to shake uncontrollably. Tax hikes? Are you serious? What we need are tax and spending cuts. Cut taxes, starve the beast. We can do more with less if only we had some ...

Posted Thu, Mar 19, 3:04 p.m.

When Oregon mandates the mileage tax and forcibly installs GPS tracking devices on all privately owned vehicles who will chronicle this, the dawning of totalitarianism in the United States?

Posted Thu, Mar 19, 2:59 p.m.

Interesting that a professor of journalism is writing on legal issues.

Posted Tue, Mar 17, 12:32 p.m.

I don’t believe good content is dependent on physical paper. Readers will seek out good journalism no matter how it’s delivered. Here are some of my thoughts on the decline of American print media in no particular order. -- Newspaper’s decline began (albeit slowly) long before the web. -- The ...

Posted Tue, Mar 17, 9:40 a.m.

The P-I is dead. Long live the P-I. Killing trees for newsprint and burning fossil fuel to distribute this newsprint is a legacy model not viable in the twenty-first century. This is the natural progression of things. It's just evolution, you know. Journalism's future mode of distribution is IP packets, ...

Posted Mon, Mar 16, 6:01 p.m.

Seattle remains a two-paper town. One of the two is now exclusively on the web. All other newspapers will end up on the web eventually. As usual, we are ahead of the crowd.

Posted Wed, Mar 11, 10:58 a.m.

The 9/11 attacks and 3,000 dead Americans occured on Bush's watch. Osama bin Laden escaped on Bush's watch. Both Bush and Cheney dodged the draft to get out of Vietnam but are eager to send other people to die in war. That's a chickenhawk. Bush lied about WMD, illegally invaded ...

Posted Wed, Feb 25, 8:08 a.m.

Tahoma, My post is "crap" and "full of cow poop," eh? I stand corrected. Your logic and reasoning are remarkable in their clarity and surely irrefutable. Thank you for pointing me towards the path of enlightenment, lol!!

Posted Mon, Feb 23, 2:09 p.m.

I'm sure these advocates of "rural renewal" will be the vanguard marching out of the cities and into the countryside.

Posted Mon, Feb 23, 2:04 p.m.

The best thing to do is do nothing and let the market sort itself out. Concentrate on cutting government spending to gradually reduce the deficit and forget about "stimulus"; the market will stimulate itself when it's good and ready. Before I'm pummeled with abuse for even mentioning "the market" I ...

Posted Mon, Feb 23, 6:31 a.m.

Pundits utter "sprawl" like a dirty word not to be mentioned in polite company. However, isn't sprawl synonymous with suburbia, i.e. new houses for people who want...a new house? What is wrong with aspiring to the American dream? Frankly, I'd rather live in a historic walk-up at the city core ...

Posted Sat, Feb 21, 6:40 p.m.

Thank you all for not placing blame at the door of craigslist.

Posted Fri, Feb 20, 7:30 a.m.

Hydro power is a scam. Get rid of the dams and build more green nuclear power plants (which emit zero greenhouse gases and don't destroy rivers.)

Posted Thu, Feb 19, 9:55 p.m.

It is upon us, and I for one am tired of newspapers whining about their crucial role in our democracy. Print news is noncompetitive legacy media and our democracy will survive its demise. I'm just waiting for the first proposals that the government bails out the newspapers.

Posted Thu, Feb 19, 5:34 p.m.

Mayor Nickels's tenure is a comedy of errors and incompetence. The recent snow debacle was only the most recent example of foolish floundering failure.

Posted Wed, Feb 18, 6:16 p.m.

Mayor Nickels has to go and Mr. Burgess seems to be a viable candidate.

Posted Wed, Feb 18, 6:14 p.m.

The old newspaper business model is outdated and obsolete, just like network television. The transition is still occurring but whatever remains when the dust settles will be better than the current situation.

Posted Fri, Feb 13, 7:08 a.m.

dbreneman, You are 100% correct. Of course, the Al Gore fans who are emotionally invested in green technology as a means to assuage their liberal guilt stubbornly refuse to pull their heads out of the sand. Eventually, however, realty will bite them in the arse.

Posted Thu, Feb 12, 3:46 p.m.

It's amazing how the liberals (like DavidT) stopped worrying about NSA spying on Americans as soon as a Demolib was doing the spying. Even the ACLU is silent on the issue. More proof that left-liberals are instinctive totalitarians. They don't mind an oppressive government apparatus as long as the boot ...

Posted Thu, Feb 12, 6:20 a.m.

I'm pretty sure the Clovis people's campfires weren't eco-friendly and they caused global warming (or is it global cooling this week? I forget.) The woolly mammoths should have purchased carbon credits.

Posted Thu, Feb 12, 6:15 a.m.

Obama publicly stated that extraordinary renditions will continue under his administrations. He also announced that the NSA can continue with their FISA-ignoring wiretapping of Americans. I'm glad that Seattle is in-sync with the continued assault on our civil liberties. Let's not even talk about the lobbyists and insiders filling his ...

Posted Thu, Feb 5, 8:17 p.m.

Posted Thu, Feb 5, 7:53 p.m.

Soon after the first Muslim president is sworn in, the only female Jew sitting on the SCOTUS mysteriously takes ill. A conspiracy is afoot. Clearly, the Muslim fifth column in Washington is getting busy.

Posted Mon, Feb 2, 9:35 p.m.

Who cares as long as the P.I. stops killing trees.

Posted Sun, Feb 1, 6:14 a.m.

How about Mount Doom?

Posted Sun, Jan 4, 12:13 p.m.

*NICKELS HAIKU* The ice covers all Seattle libs say no to salt Crash goes the Prius

Posted Fri, Dec 26, 5:55 p.m.

I guess Al Gore fixed the global warming problem. Good work, Al!

Posted Thu, Sep 18, 11:37 p.m.

RE: Justice isn't independent of the era it was created: The poster comments that Justice Douglas voted to intern American citizens to protect them. That reminds me of that Vietnam-era quote "It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it." I'm sure Nazis also claimed the ghetto ...

Posted Wed, Sep 17, 11:35 p.m.

Some thoughts...: Are you channeling the late William O. Douglas's spirit? That must be it; otherwise this is just one person's opinion. The only thing particularly outstanding about Justice Douglas's term on the SCOTUS was its duration. He voted to uphold the internment of Japanese-Americans, and his opinions were filled ...

Posted Wed, Sep 17, 2:52 a.m.

The Downfall: The horrifying truth that has Democrats second guessing themselves is the simple and inescapable fact that Obama was the absolute wrong choice and they should have gone for Hillary. When Obama/Biden go down in humiliating defeat (and they will) who will the Democrats blame? Howard Dean? The Rules ...

Posted Tue, Sep 16, 1:32 a.m.

Beauty does not trump brains: Back in May Obama cockily proclaimed he would debate Sen. John McCain "anywhere, anytime." But in June, Obama said no to McCain's challenge to have 10 one-on-one town hall meetings. If Obama had agreed to McCain's proposal for 10 town hall-style debates we would be ...

Posted Mon, Sep 15, 5:12 a.m.

Too expensive: The Kindle won't gain more popularity until the price comes down...way down! Heck, Amazon should give it away just to sell more books.

Posted Mon, Sep 15, 4:55 a.m.

Experience Matters: Obama is fading because the attention on Sarah Palin's qualifications is causing people to take another look at Obama's curriculum vitae and what they see is a former "community organizer" with 140 working-days in the Senate and zero executive experience. He is an unqualified lightweight and the only ...

Posted Sun, Sep 2, 5:43 p.m.

RE: guilty hypocrite or conflicted victim?: Restroom sex with total strangers is unique to gays, and it's pretty damn unnatural, too. I can't think of any location less erotic and conducive to lovemaking than a filthy stinking toilet stall in a public restroom. Yecchhh!

Posted Sun, Sep 2, 8:30 a.m.

Strange and disturbing sex acts: What is it with gays and their attraction to weird public restroom sex? Police departments all over the country have to devote scare resources to prevent the commission of unnatural acts in pubic restrooms. Keep it in the bathhouse, folks!

Posted Mon, Aug 27, 10:19 a.m.

UW #1!: UW towers above all other academies of higher education in the State of Washington. Its superlative existance is a gift to all humanity. Is it no wonder they call Harvard "The UW of Massachusetts" and Yale "The UW of Conneticut?" All hail the Dawgs!

Posted Sat, Aug 18, 9:48 a.m.

China = Corrupt Totalitarian Dictatorship: Supporting the Shanghai Trade Fair is supporting Wal-Mart.

Posted Thu, Aug 16, 2:08 p.m.

Pay to Stay: I pay every month (with no 72 hour grace period, either) for a place to live and park my car. Why can't these folks move their camper to a RV mobile home park? They can't afford it? If that is true, they certainly can't afford to live ...

Posted Thu, Aug 16, 8:59 a.m.

The Law Applies to Everyone: First, living in a camper mounted on a functional truck doesn't meet any definition of "homelessness" that I know. It may not be the Hearst Castle, but it's a clean space with a roof. Second, if they insist on living in this way they must ...

Posted Tue, Aug 14, 9:50 a.m.

Farewell, Democracy: Norm Dicks is a walking, talking poster child for the urgency of term limits. He may be a decent human being, but he is also an example of the corrosive effect that unchallenged and unchallengeable incumbency has on our democracy. Under the watch of politicians such as Rep. ...

Posted Tue, Aug 14, 9:01 a.m.

Slouching Towards Leviathan?: I'm no lawyer, but it appears that "land-marking" is a convenient method for local governments to usurp the right of private citizens to do what they wish with their own property.

Posted Mon, Aug 13, 6:56 p.m.

RE: Krackpot Kos Kidz live on the extreme fringe of American politics.: Gore and Kerry were both miserable candidates and far too left-wing for middle America. The DLC is the only path towards electoral success for the Democrats. The supreme egotist Markos "Screw Them" Moulitsas appeared on Meet The Press ...

Posted Sun, Aug 12, 9:14 p.m.

RE: Increase in HUD funding is essential: The onus is now on Congress to massively reinvest in public housing and private housing subsidies, to make up for two decades of neglect. Right, let's just waste more of the taxpayers money building new housing projects. Don't you people ever learn?

Posted Sat, Aug 11, 10:59 p.m.

Krackpot Kos Kidz live on the extreme fringe of American politics.: The only Democratic president elected in the last 28 years was a DLC centrist. The Democrats will lose in 2008 if the don't appeal to the moderates of middle America. Do Democrats really want their own version of the ...