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Neither Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin nor Delaware Sen. Joe Biden did their campaigns harm in St. Louis. For the less-seasoned Palin, that was an accomplishment. But her ticket is still playing catch-up.
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A friend recalls a good guy of the dot-com generation of executives, a dynamo who knew the importance of living in the now.
READ MORE | 4 COMMENTSAny one who doubts the housing bubble inflated from the ground up, who thinks all the attendant greed and deception resided on Wall Street rather than Main Street, hasn't been listening to my brother-in-law the appraiser. Long before Washington Mutual and Wachovia and Lehman Brothers bit the dust, he complained, the whole system was corrupt. This was how he explained it:
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWSo. Tonight's the big vice-presidential debate between Republican Gov. Sarah Palin and Democratic Sen. Joe Biden. Which Palin will show up? Will we see the pitbull with lipstick or the incoherent Couric interviewee? It's anybody's guess. But with expectations already at rock-bottom, it's fair to assume she'll look better than many liberals think. What about Biden? As former Gore advisor Michael Feldman wrote in the Washington Post this morning, Biden's mission is not to screw it up. ...
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A few things you might not know about the second most famous congressional earmark, including how it's connected to harbor seals in Alaska.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWSomeone's got to be hashing out the film rights to this right now. In a heist reminiscent of The Thomas Crown Affair and the Joker's crew of lookalikes in the Dark Knight's opening bank robbery, a thief in southern Snohomish County apparently recruited unwitting decoys on Craigslist to aid his escape. Police told the Everett Herald that a man who robbed an armored-car guard in Monroe Tuesday posted a job ad on Craigslist to flood the scene of his escape with hopeful workers. According to a witness, the man dressed in a blue shirt and dust mask. After pepper-spraying the guard, he fled toward a nearby creek, where he may have used an inner tube to escape in Woods Creek, toward the nearby Skykomish River.
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Is it possible to shop almost exclusively at thrift stores and not look like a ragamuffin? You bet, but it's not easy.
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Chapter 6: After a year of discussion on updating neighborhood plans, the City of Seattle saw the light. That would be the approaching beam of light rail in the first three neighborhoods.
READ MORE | 4 COMMENTSNo doubt Ivar Haglund would be whoopin' it up over Ivar's 70th anniversary celebration this year. Unfortunately, the colorful Seattle restaurateur died in 1985 at the salty old age of 89. Now the longest-standing seafood restaurant chain in Puget Sound, Ivar's got its start in 1938 as Ivar's Fish Bar on Seattle's Pier 54. Back then, the menu featured fish and potatoes (now called fish 'n chips), along with shrimp and oyster cocktails. Today, that simple fish 'n chip stand has morphed into full service restaurants, seafood bars, and Ivar's Seafood, Soup & Sauce Company.
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