THE SUMMER PRINT MISC is officially late (I’d wanted it out today), but it is coming.

As part of it, I’m writing an exhortive little essay entitled “No, Seattle Doesn’t Suck.”

For it, I’d like your participation. Tell me what you like about Seattle. (Only things that are actually in Seattle! Out-of-town scenery doesn’t count!)

Send it in to our handy email box, preferably before the end of the month. Thanx in advance.

THE NY TIMES quotes an Italian business analyst on the Enron-Arthur Andersen-WorldCom mess: “What is lacking in the U.S. is a culture of shame. No C.E.O. in the U.S. is considered a thief if he does something wrong. It is a kind of moral cancer.”

WHAT ADAM SMITH REALLY WROTE, as opposed to what the pro-corporate “libertarians” claim he wrote.

THE FREMONT SOLSTICE PARADE is tons-O-fun; equally zany (although only slightly more dressed) is the Coney Island Mermaid Parade.