Posted Tue, Apr 17, 11:55 p.m.

So our choices for governor are two men who both studied economics at UW then went to law school at a highly regarded, private university: Texas- born, army brat McKenna at Chicago, and Seattle native Inslee at Willamette. Perhaps an over-generalization (but not by much) the law school is a ...

Posted Mon, Apr 16, 8:52 p.m.

The side story is Obama now associated with Hilary Rosen. Rosen's reputation has needed a makeover since her days as head of the RIAA and it's war on Napster et al, equating the civil offense of copyright infringement with criminal piracy, intense lobbying for the DMCA, and, for good measure, ...

Posted Sun, Apr 8, 10:16 p.m.

Picking nits are in order: although Blaine Harden was prominent, and articulate, as an interviewee in the broadcast, no where is he is credited with providing the basis for the film. Indeed, Harden's 1997 book "A River Lost" is one of several of a long line of serious, eloquent, and ...

Posted Sat, Mar 24, 11:30 p.m.

a city with a favorite son resonating in a rippling, freely floating metal skin, the inspiration of which is reported to be a pile of trash from an electric guitar shop in Santa Monica, could certainly defy the practical with a levitating jelly bean that, um, moistens you

Posted Sun, Mar 18, 10:42 p.m.

Oh the irony of Willard asking Randy Owen to step up and sing a tune, and one that Owen had no connection. Alabama's signature song - The Closer You Get - could well be Romney's swan song, which begins: The closer you get, the further I fall, I'll be over ...

Posted Mon, Jan 30, 9:53 p.m.

Boy oh boy. That Crosscut would publish this story is so wrong in a number of ways it's hard to know where to start. Yeah I get that the media are now in an inoculate-the-public phase about a chemical crisis in society. Every drug purchase is recorded in a data ...

Posted Wed, Nov 30, 9:53 p.m.

My gosh, a federal reserve facility in Seattle? How cool is that? Anybody paying half-attention to current events over the last couple of years just *might* understand the significance of the institution, and, by association a city in which it resides. And the back story of dueling historic preservation consultants, ...

Posted Thu, Nov 24, 11:24 p.m.

So after 25 years or so of biologists obsessed with finding grizzlies in the north cascades, a photograph taken by a hiker provides the elusive proof? A photograph? Physical evidence -- bones -- of ground sloths and mammoths prove they once roamed the Columbia Basin, for example. Where's their recovery ...

Posted Sun, Nov 20, 12:06 a.m.

Sometime back in the mid-90's before satellite radio, AM radio was pretty much all I could get driving across the Cascades. Listening to Rush rage radio one time, Scott Simon called in. I forget the subject discussed, but I remember Rush was just gushing over the impromptu presence of a ...

Posted Sun, Sep 18, 11:29 p.m.

Not being religious or spiritual, I know a parable when I see one. And most modern parables wound as well as instruct. Gotta go...get ready for the sunrise