Posted Tue, May 20, 5:23 p.m.

Sounds of war?: More like sound of bs. Steilacoom and Lakewood aren't anywhere near a Ft. Lewis live fire range.

Posted Sat, May 17, 12:59 p.m.

wahh wahh: You got your wish, that terrible evil war ended and all of Vietnam has lived in eternal peace and harmony with complete freedom of expression, the right to worship and pursue happiness ever since. In other words you're just another self involved congratulatory American liberal misunderstanding the causes ...

Posted Fri, May 9, 1:26 p.m.

RE: The Facts: Slight corrections to your post. Gregoire is from Triallawyeria Cantwell is from Techbubbleonia Murray is from Converseallstarastan

Posted Tue, Apr 29, 3:27 p.m.

RE: Seattle history lite: The desire to have a park at Westlake rather than the abortion that's there now predated the Commons.

Posted Mon, Apr 28, 12:34 p.m.

Why battle the nutcases?: So people left, why should they stay when it was obvious the loons were out playing their usual games.

Posted Mon, Apr 28, 12:25 p.m.

Seattle history lite: I remember sharing an elevator ride with Mayor Charlie and his hulking police escort one day. I had just walked through the demolished Westlake area and the vista towards Lake Union was incredible and I was mourning the loss (you fought the good fight John Hinterberger) of ...

Posted Tue, Apr 22, 12:19 p.m.

Redefine failure: "We would consider the expo a failure if the U.S. did not participate." That's interesting, I'd call it a failure if we do participate. Even if China were not the world's biggest human rights abuser, the fact that they are nothing more than a state run economy one ...

Posted Wed, Apr 16, 12:38 p.m.

RE: A Times-like Article: I still remember Fancher's self serving article about why the Times dumped their outstanding ombudsman which explained how objective he was and how unnecessary it was for such an august institution as his to employ an outsider, because, as we all know the Times has no ...

Posted Sat, Apr 12, 3:28 p.m.

The book is named "Liberal Fascism": Author Jonah Goldberg for those of you scared to click on a nameless link to the American Spectator.

Posted Sun, Mar 23, 3:07 p.m.

RE: Memorial: Spare us the histrionics. Memorializing the dead is honorable and just, pretending that a high school football stadium is "holy ground" is an insult to the living and the dead. No one's buried there, a fitting and somber tribute site could be located in any number of appropriate ...

Posted Thu, Feb 28, 10:34 a.m.

RE: In the End His Legacy Was Lost: Clueless in Seattle

Posted Sat, Feb 16, 1:46 p.m.

"Editor's Pick": WTF is that bullshit?

Posted Mon, Dec 3, 10:53 p.m.

I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!: The suggestion by Carr that the reporter subpoenas might be merely a legal tactic outraged Executive Editor David Boardman. If the issuance of the subpoenas is "some sort of legal strategy, I'm offended that the city attorney would ...

Posted Sun, Nov 25, 5:04 p.m.

Paen to pretention.: That's pretty much what the Seattle Times article was in a nutshell. By the time half the outsiders mentioned in the article had even set foot in the city there were locally trained chefs who were taking advantage of the priceless resource of Pike Place and embracing ...

Posted Thu, Nov 22, 7:38 p.m.

Speak for yourself: "...we remain impervious to soccer." Spake another self appointed sports guru in the US. Been hearing this crap since I was 12 and for the last 34 years have enjoyed all forms of soccer in the States along with millions of other fans.

Posted Wed, Nov 21, 2:57 p.m.

Because, you know, it's not our money...: "It may be hard to get juiced up about a kicker if your kid is treading water in an under-funded public school; family medical care is courtesy of the emergency room because no one has insurance; the potholes on your street could swallow ...

Posted Sun, Oct 28, 6:12 p.m.

RE: emember the Public Safety Bldg. & City Hall?: "Schools should look like educational institutions not correctional facilities." I don't care what they look like, I just wish they were run like correctional facilities rather than day care centers. At least inmates are taught usable job skills.

Posted Mon, Oct 15, 5:26 p.m.

RE: UW & Big Science: The phenomena I cited is endemic to all US colleges and Universities and the thought that you throw more money at the problem rather than simply require your high paid, do-nothing staff to teach more than one class a year is just as endemic and ...

Posted Tue, Oct 9, 3:17 p.m.

First paragraphs are telling...: The professor's UW website seems to indicate that he teaches exactly ONE undergraduate course and that appears to be one of the UW's famous 300 student introductory classes. "Research and Development" University's are part and parcel of the dismal state of higher education because you can ...

Posted Sun, Sep 16, 2:40 p.m.

Oregonian/Oregon Live: The Oregonian is by far the worst, everything from the sign in crap to the incomprehensible layout, the Seattle-PI the best. The Salem Statesman Journal site is corporate cookie cutter but has an active online forum community.

Posted Sun, Sep 16, 2:36 p.m.

Toll on, Columbia!: I'm sure as hell not going to pay a toll on a Federal Highway going from Oregon to Seattle just so some asshole from Vancouver can commute to Portland.

Posted Sat, Sep 8, 2:08 p.m.

RE: What about the good old boys?: And so brayeth another northwest johnny come lately, jackass no nothing. Far easier to belittle men and women who contributed far more to their civic community than I suspect you'd do given 50 lifetimes than to actually recognize that those same men and ...

Posted Fri, Aug 17, 5:05 p.m.

Sure let's spend $100 million on the US Pavillion: we can call it the "June Fourth Movement Memorial Pavilion".

Posted Wed, May 2, 1:54 p.m.

I'd tell you Todd...: to "get a life" but then, you're a 'cyclist and would have no idea what to do once you got one.

Posted Sat, Apr 21, 6:06 p.m.

thirty years later: The other side of the coin happens to be how you folks killed off the Seattle of blue collar families and small, intimate neighborhoods and destroyed the school system with each succeeding "reform". You weren't "good government" types, you were just "government types".

Posted Thu, Apr 19, 10:42 a.m.

"Rationalization", your political friend: How cute. In a "completely divorced from reality" sort of way. I'd like to see a $2.00 fine for every moronic pol who introduces legislation (or votes for same) like the recent Oregon move to name a "State Soil".

Posted Sat, Apr 14, 1:38 p.m.

RE: A high standard: Not knocking Vonnegut (well maybe a little), but shouldn't a true mossback have been stalking Richard Brautigan (or Ken Kesey if you wanted to stay more mainstream) at that time? Brautigan's body of work was as iconoclastic as Vonnegut's with the added distinction of never becoming ...

Posted Thu, Apr 12, 12:50 p.m.

Good article, cliche Photoshop Philter of Imus: Geez, would someone please, please ban those damn photos filtered to look like a hoity toity painting? If you must then learn how to combine the effects of multiple filters to generate non-cliched images.

Posted Sun, Apr 8, 9:07 p.m.

No defense for bike messengers...: nothing less than a summary execution would satisfy me when they ride on sidewalks, and they all do.

Posted Tue, Apr 3, 11:43 a.m.

mossbacks: I have a new definition of "mossback", hold your paw up if you actually paid to subscribe to "The Weekly" back in the day. ^ *

Posted Tue, Apr 3, 11:31 a.m.

Vancouver Oregon: Not only is Vancouver not a part of Oregon, most of Portland is no longer part of Oregon.