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- ‘Twas a lovely low key event in glorious Greenwood Thursday evening, debuting our latest book Then & Now: Seattle. Thanks to all who attended and to the staff of Couth Buzzard Books.
- The greatest American-born soccer player in perhaps-ever has retired. There’s a monument to him in his hometown, Olympia.
- Besides the expected police over-reactions in various cities, right wing sleaze artists are trying to discredit the Occupy ______ movement by committing acts of vandalism and blaming it on the movement. There’s also a falsely credited photo circulating around right-wing blogs. It depicts a protest march with banners reading “Fuck the Troops” and “No Gods No Masters.” The right-wing blogs claim it to be a recent Occupy Wall Street scene. It’s really from Portland, and it’s from a 2007 antiwar protest.
- Danny Westneat is wrong. The Occupy ______ people don’t want to get “government handouts.” They want the people and companies who don’t need government handouts, but get them anyway, to get at least fewer of them.
- I guess there’s never an off-season for jokes based on “Seattle” stereotypes.
- Seattle Public Schools are way popular. This bodes well for the city’s survival as a place where ordinary, non-affluent folk can continue to reside.
- The guy being blamed around Facebook and Twitter for stiffing a Capitol Hill waitress and calling her fat? He’s not the guy that did it.
- With fewer undocumented immigrants entering the U.S. these days (despite what the lying right-wing media claims), there’s a shortage of farm workers. That shortage has hit the Washington apple orchards.
- One side effect of the proposed Swedish-Providence medical merger: The nuns who run Providence want nothing to do with abortion services, and will veto any continuation of elective abortions at Swedish. Swedish management’s trying to get out of the resulting PR brouhaha by helping to fund a new Planned Parenthood clinic.
- Dear animal activists: “Liberating” critters bred to be homebodies doesn’t always work. Especially if the critters aren’t native to the particular wilds you’re sending them into.
