Posted Tue, Apr 24, 11:30 a.m.

And stepping over drunks on Saturday night.......

Posted Tue, Apr 24, 11:28 a.m.

(4) those whose only crime is illegally entering or remaining in the U.S. That's all it takes to justify deportation as far as I'm concerned. Cameron - "Is it profiling or common sense to question people who do not speak English, do not have identification, proof of citizenship and appear ...

Posted Wed, Apr 18, 9:54 a.m.

Paint rainbow slashes like the gas tank in Dorchester, Boston. http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/kingsley_corita_gas_tank.jpg might be kinda skinny for that, though.......

Posted Wed, Apr 4, 11:29 a.m.

The medical usefulness of marijuana is low, though not zero. Just legalize it, tax it, and get it over with.

Posted Wed, Mar 7, 1:17 p.m.

Something I might expect to read in a high school newspaper from an adolescent starting to learn the concept of satire. Is this the best this clown can do?

Posted Thu, Mar 1, 10:04 a.m.

I think it was the Times, where I saw mention there's more Medicaid/DSHS in Kent, by percentage of population, than there is in Seattle.

Posted Thu, Mar 1, 10:01 a.m.

I wish the Full Faith and Credit would apply to gun laws as well as gay marriage. If I have a carry permit in Idaho, I should be able to carry in Chicago.

Posted Thu, Mar 1, 9:57 a.m.

A review of past books: "Sharks don't get cancer" Sharks get cancer. "French women don't get fat" French women get fat, so do the men, and French physicians are quite concerned about obesity in their country. So now we have another book comparing French yuppies to America generally. Wasn't it ...

Posted Thu, Feb 9, 10:28 a.m.

My only concern is basic competence of the system, or lack thereof. Speeding ticket in 1991 in a nearby town. Ticket paid within a week or so. Check cashed. Mortgage application and house purchase nearly torpedoed in 1998, as that town had sent me to collections. Would have been nice ...

Posted Fri, Feb 3, 8:54 a.m.

"Getting real" would be legalizing and regulating marijuana. The medical value of marijuana is microscopic.

Posted Tue, Jan 24, 9:27 a.m.

Which is why pensions/retirement savings and healthcare should be portable (HSA's for example). Employers aren't loyal to employees, the employees should not be loyal to anyone but themselves. As it should be. Boeing should be free to set up production in South Carolina. I hope Wichita sells their aerospace experience ...

Posted Mon, Jan 23, 3:46 p.m.

Good thing Pharma rules stopped the drug companies from handing out sticky pads and pens to the family doctors and internists. That way they can direct much larger amounts of money directly to academics. causing much more damage in the process. Excellent job, by the way, on ferreting out the ...

Posted Mon, Jan 23, 2:39 p.m.

.....clinic in Vancouver that operated as a so-called “pill mill"....... That clinic was run by nurse-practitioners in an independent practice. There is no physician supervision of any kind. For some reason, articles like this one, gloss over that fact. "Everett osteopath", "Anesthesiologist", and of course "doctor", always specified clearly. MQAC ...

Posted Tue, Jan 3, 8:49 a.m.

I moved here in 1990, from Boston. The other end of I-90. In the early 1990's, I used to hear the locals use the phrase "world-class" to describe things about town. "World-class" this, "world-class that". Go to see a jazz act, and hear someone tell me the act is "world-class". ...

Posted Tue, Dec 6, 2:17 p.m.

MGM ran this cartoon "Peace on Earth" in December 1939, three months after Hitler invaded Poland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8stkqssLYc McGovern returned with his hatred for war, and supported Henry Wallace against Harry Truman........who had also served in an equally brutal war. I know people like to take swipes at Nixon. He was ...

Posted Sat, Oct 29, 4:54 p.m.

http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2011-12/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5942-S.PL.pdf Has anyone seen the editorial Friday's Seattle Times? http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorials/2016626315_edit28wholesale.html The State is going to privatize liquor sales anyway, in a law quietly passed by the Legislature and signed by the Governor. I hadn't noticed this until the Times wrote it up. Maybe I'm not paying attention. I agree, crony ...

Posted Thu, Oct 27, 8:21 p.m.

"......[in 1927] it was against state law for immigrants from Japan to own or lease property. It was not until 1966 that state law was changed and Kubota became the legal owner........" I know such laws existed in the 1920's. Are you saying that Japanese immigrants could not own or ...

Posted Thu, Oct 20, 10:52 a.m.

Would we be having this discussion if Romney were Muslim? The slightest suggestion that religion were a problem with a Muslim candidate, would be mau-maued and shouted down by the usual politically-correct crowd.

Posted Thu, Oct 20, 10:31 a.m.

And the only person NOT talking about Mormon faith is Mitt Romney himself. Lots of busybodies around him want to make an issue about it.

Posted Thu, Oct 20, 8:41 a.m.

College days, I've walked through some pretty dense forest in New England, where stone walls run between the trees, and you find the occasional gravestone where there's a three-foot-thick tree growing about where the dead person's chest would be. Land that was farmed until after the Civil War, then people ...

Posted Thu, Oct 20, 8:31 a.m.

There's a collectivism in the Mormon faith. Tithing and all that. You'd think that would be considered a plus to a Crosscut Seattle audience.

Posted Fri, Oct 7, 9:13 a.m.

If you see her hanging out with Tonya Harding, head for the hills.

Posted Thu, Sep 8, 3:51 p.m.

+1 what cranky said

Posted Thu, Sep 8, 3:46 p.m.

judicial activism = "a court decision that I don't like"

Posted Thu, Aug 11, 7:04 p.m.

I'm with Laurence Ballard and orino on this one.

Posted Thu, Jul 21, 9:40 a.m.

I can't argue with any of this, just point out that government insurance is not necessarily any better. She can try her counseling with Medicaid. Speaking of Kafka.......he had a day job. After graduating University, the only job he ever held was as a lawyer for the Worker's Compensation Board ...

Posted Wed, Jul 13, 3:15 p.m.

Now that we're engaged in Libya, I think Obama should get another Nobel Peace Prize.

Posted Mon, Jul 11, 2:41 p.m.

Is this like the Scotland courts which, as I understand it, allow the jury to rule "not proven"?

Posted Mon, Jun 20, 11:22 a.m.

One thing that's always puzzled me. At the time, the monorail was touted as some sort of "new" mode of public transportation. Apart from one rail rather than two, why is the monorail any different from an old-fashioned elevated train. At the time, what would have been the theoretical advantage ...

Posted Thu, May 12, 12:38 p.m.

I wonder if we'd be hearing about this if Young were Muslim.

Posted Thu, May 12, 12:32 p.m.

"......It galls the American right wing that Obama did what George W. Bush could not......." That's just not true, and it's a cheap shot. The right-wing press has been congratulatory. The only political argument that's come from this is the perfectly fair argument of whether Bin Laden's takedown came from ...

Posted Tue, May 10, 9:04 a.m.

Seems it's still politically correct to harbor prejudice against Christianity.

Posted Fri, Apr 29, 9:05 a.m.

Aaron Goldstein in the Spectator says what I feel: "......if you were to ask me how to describe President Obama I would call him a petulant, preening, thin-skinned dilettante who thinks he is beyond criticism. But if you were to ask me how to describe Donald Trump, well, I would ...

Posted Tue, Apr 19, 12:30 p.m.

Maybe. It didn't hurt the Wall Street Journal, which is where my money goes when I want a newspaper. Their readership is going up, in contrast to the rest of the American newspaper industry.

Posted Tue, Apr 19, 11:38 a.m.

Sorry to hear about your individual story, but I am not sorry about the PI's closure. As mentioned, I felt I was reading a propaganda organ. I do continue to subscribe to a newspaper. The Wall Street Journal. There's more journalistic balance in the WSJ than the PI ever had.

Posted Tue, Feb 22, 12:16 p.m.

Let's see. A Presidential poll, taken right at the time of Reagan's 100th birthday, and we wonder why his name is at the top of the list. I bet if you ran a poll like this one in 1853, you'd have Millard Fillmore at the top. Nobody lives forever. Run ...

Posted Wed, Jan 19, 3:21 p.m.

David Berkowitz "Son of Sam" killed people in New York because his dog told him to do it. Blaming Sarah Palin for the Tuscon shooting is like blaming the dog for Son of Sam.

Posted Mon, Jan 17, 2:47 p.m.

I have always had a hard time understanding the state's rights argument. We have a state's rights argument over marijuana. Despite the sometimes heated arguments, I can't see the states organizing an army to fight for the right to smoke pot. Fine to sqay it was a state's rights fight, ...

Posted Fri, Dec 24, 2:38 p.m.

".....Again this year, my Christmas wish is for a two-state solution, roughly along the pre-1967 borders, with prosperity and peace for Jews, Muslims, and Christians....." All you need for that is for certain parties to stop advocating the destruction of Israel, recognize it's right to exist, and stop shooting missles ...

Posted Wed, Dec 8, 1:52 p.m.

I've not taken the Seattle-Vancouver BC ride. Does the train go all the way from Seattle to Vancouver BC, or is there some connection to a bus or another train near the border?

Posted Mon, Dec 6, 10:02 a.m.

".......Many agricultural growers support the bill, as well as broader legislation that would legalize their undocumented workers......" And as soon as they become legal, they leave, and the agricultural growers are back to square one. Bring in more illegals, and it never stops.

Posted Fri, Nov 19, 11:04 a.m.

I love all these great ideas on how to improve schools. So bold. So innovative. Everything except school choice and vouchers. That's too risky.

Posted Mon, Nov 1, 1:05 p.m.

One thing about voting early. I put my ballot in the mail over ten days ago. I used the mailbox in the local post office. King County elections has a "track your ballot" feature. As of today (November 1), there is no record that it has been received. I'm going ...

Posted Thu, Oct 28, 10:28 a.m.

I'm puzzled why the measure should "cost the state", meaning cause the state to lose revenue. Don't they tax the alcohol? Tax the alcohol at whatever rate it takes to be revenue-neutral. I'm not saying it's right, just saying they can.

Posted Tue, Oct 26, 4:27 p.m.

Somehow nearly 40 out of 50 states work just fine without a state monopoly on alcohol. In Massachusetts, we had Blue Laws with alcohol for the longest time. Limited hours, no Sunday sales. College days, students would make a run across the New Hampshire border to pick up beer on ...

Posted Thu, Oct 14, 11:39 a.m.

Lou Dobbs wife, Debi Lee Segura, is a Mexican-American. Hard to call him anti-Hispanic. It is not Lou Dobbs duty to check the immigration status of every employee of someone contracted with him. He contracts with the firm for......housekeeping, farm labor, whatever.......it is the contractor's responsibility to make sure the ...

Posted Thu, Oct 14, 10:24 a.m.

A secret blend of herbs and spices made the unique Aroma of Tacoma. That would explain the varied answers I would get over the years. Thanx.

Posted Fri, Oct 8, 10:19 a.m.

— dbreneman I thought bicycle users DID have to follow the same rules as autos. At least that was what I was taught when I was first allowed to ride a bicycle on city streets. Then again, some time ago, and another state.

Posted Fri, Oct 8, 10:10 a.m.

dbreneman I thought it was a sulfur smell, but maybe just my nose. The smell reminded me of any of a number of paper-mill towns I've passed through all over the country. Maybe it is some sort of mix. I just heard the rendering plant explanation last week. Seems every ...

Posted Thu, Oct 7, 1:40 p.m.

Let me ask a dumb question as a non-native. Is THIS the source of the infamous "aroma of Tacoma"? When I ask locals exactly what was the source of the sulfurous smell noticed when I first moved here long ago, and what happened to eliminate it (reduce it?) I get ...

Posted Mon, Aug 9, 11:49 a.m.

Why can't Leonard Nimoy just do the Vulcan Mind Meld?

Posted Fri, Jul 23, 6:41 p.m.

Wow, at least I would not force a prisoner to read a pompous Seneca post, that would be an eighth amendment violation against cruel and unusual punishment. But, as they say, no one hates like a liberal.

Posted Fri, Jul 23, 6:40 p.m.

Wow, at least I would force a prisoner to read a pompous Seneca post, that would be an eighth amendment violation against cruel and unusual punishment. But, as they say, no one hates like a liberal.

Posted Thu, Jul 22, 2:59 p.m.

Leave the country and re-enter illegally. Re-create an ID from scratch. Then claim financial aid.

Posted Mon, Jul 19, 1:37 p.m.

And yet when the time comes to cut employees, the only jobs they can find to cut are police and prison guards.

Posted Tue, Jul 13, 6:08 p.m.

As with Medicare decades ago, health-care reform faces cries of "socialism." But with good work on adopting the new law, people will eventually wonder why there was a fuss. The writer seems to be saying that the original concerns about Medicare were unfounded, like some sort of "flat earth" types, ...

Posted Mon, Jul 12, 5:42 p.m.

U of California - Santa Cruz has already taken the Slug mascot.

Posted Fri, May 28, 4:49 p.m.

Tea-bag or tea-party, whatever you call them, I can't imagine why they would oppose private liquor sales. Seems to me a member of that movement would support getting the government out of what is clearly NOT an essential governmet function.

Posted Tue, May 11, 9 a.m.

French women most certainly get fat. Europe, unfortunately, is rapidly catching up to America's obestity statistics.

Posted Tue, Apr 27, 2:16 p.m.

If they're going to punish the property owner, the natural response will be to gring up the bones and scatter them.

Posted Wed, Feb 10, 1 p.m.

"......We sympathized with the plaintiff's attorney, 74, who had conscientiously represented a client who, unfortunately for him and for her, had told conflicting stories and quite early in the trial forfeited her credibility......" In other words, it was a frivolous lawsuit.