(NOTE: Due to time constraints of an employment-related variety, these might not appear as frequently during the next few weeks.)

• Seattle’s not the only city with no NBA basketball these days, as the lockout cancels the first preseason games.
• Just as we’d figured, the Illinois company calling itself Boeing has been out to bust its unions by dumping its Washington heritage.
• Seattle ranks #7 in a list of the top transit-using metro areas.
• Novelist Anne Marie Ruff has a theory why there’s no cure for AIDS yet—because a cure wouldn’t be as profitable for the drug companies as expensive lifetime treatments are.
• Canada’s hard-right federal government is imposing harsh minimum sentencing laws on pot growers caught with as few as six plants. B.C. provincial officials fear it could swamp its already overcrowded prison system.
• A guy in Montana was attacked by a bear. The guy’s friend fired a gun at the bear. Missed the bear. Hit the guy.

There’s one thing I sure don’t want you to miss. It’s at 5 p.m. today at the new Elliott Bay Book Co., on 10th Avenue between Pike and Pine on Capitol Hill. Be there or be trapezoidal.