• Legendary skyjacker D.B. Cooper might have finally been tracked down. Dead, of course. (As all real fans of the legend know, the alias he really gave to Northwest Airlines was “Dan Cooper.” Turns out there had been a French comic book hero of that name.)
• Stuck for one more summer month with bored, pouting offspring (of the fem. variety)? Send ’em to the new American Girl doll store in Alderwood Mall. (I personally like that the American Girl brand/phenomenon teaches the history of everyday life, which is just as important as the history of politicians and generals if not more so.)
• AP headline: “Woman’s Facebook breakup lawsuit against Kennewick man dismissed.” No, not that Kennewick Man.
• As anti-tunnel advocates held a march on City Hall Monday, TheSunBreak.com dissected a couple of Seattle Times pro-highway-construction editorials. The editorials were published in 1967. The highway they were supporting was the R.H. Thompson Expressway, which would have basically eliminated much of the Central District and obliterated much of the Arboretum. The Arboretum’s famous “ramps to nowhere” were built to connect State Route 520 to the Thompson, which was thankfully rejected by voters who’d rejected the Times’ arguments—arguments mightily similar to the paper’s pro-tunnel arguments these days.
• In made-up-national-crisis news, Keith Olbermann angrily lashes back on the debt deal, calling for a mass movement bent on “taking back governance from politicians.”
• To the contrary, here are two web-based pundits who insist Obama actually won this one. Stacie Borrello insists that “Obama and the Dems are the ones who outplayed the GOP,” leaving House Republicans “trying to save face.” And Spandan Chakrabarti (aka “Deaniac83”) claims that (contrary to what relative know-nothings like Paul Krugman might claim)…

Barack Obama ate John Boehner’s lunch, and then he turned Boehner out to go preach to his conservative colleagues that this eating of the lunch by Obama is actually politically good for them.