Back to the present day, thankfully….

• Is food bought at farmers’ markets really not so safe to eat? Or is this just a scare-tactic excuse for King County to massively raise permit fees?
• Here’s a long, sad look at the post-traumatic stress cases at Lewis-McChord, and the resulting suicides, child-killings, and child-tortures.
• The “Say Something Nice” meme has hit Seattle.
• Paul Constant asks whether Nor’westerners (at least in the lit realm) lack ambition, and answers with a qualified no.
• There’ll be a memorial march for the suddenly deceased Broadway barista Brian Fairbrother on Tuesday morning.
• Some modern day college students made a student paper the old fashioned way; the way I did it back then. Manual typewriters. Photos made and processed on film (the school seems not to have a working darkroom anymore). Actual cutting and pasting. X-Acto knives and pasteup boards.