joshua trujillo, seattlepi.com
- There was a remembrance in Cowen Park marking one year since the Cafe Racer tragedy.
- Unlike some of the “radicals” fighting against low wages at fast-food joints, I actually patronize fast-food joints. And I want the fine people who prepare my meals to be properly compensated for the fine work they do.
- The FBI investigated the song “Louie Louie” for two whole years, only to find a simple love lyric made unintelligible.
- Will legal pot in our society lead, invariably, to corporate pot?
- To Microsoft’s regret, it just can’t get people to say “Let’s Bing it.”
- Our ol’ pal Gillian Gaar reports the “Welcome to Aberdeen: Come As You Are” sign might come down.
- Who, besides “out o’ sight, out o’ mind” NIMBYs, benefits from the suburbanization of poverty?
- A Cheerios commercial features a nice interracial family. The usual dorks and trolls respond as you’d predict.
- Lawrence Lessig would like a Democratic Party that’s less beholden to corporate funders.
- Texas: future Democratic stronghold?
- Some people will miss making fun of Michelle Bachmann. I won’t.
- The Chicago Sun-Times, once billed as “Chicago’s Picture Newspaper,” is firing all its photographers.
- No, Ms. magazine, the 10 most important things American women could not do before the 1970s wold probably really include more important things than “read Ms. magazine.”
- Istanbul was Constantinople. Now it’s a battleground of democracy vs. shady dealmaking.
- WikiLeaks dude Julian Assange sees today’s Google as an increasingly reactionary gang of government-butt kissers.
- Let’s close with a haunting look at a run down (but still open!) tourist site, the Flintstones theme park in Arizona.
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