A Pew Research study claims today’s 18-25-year-olds are more tolerant and more Democratic-leaning than their elders, have more casual sex and binge drinking, and are more eager to make tons of money.

…about the forthcoming new group online venture that will include and envelope this here bloggy thang, sometime in the next month or two. But our ol’ ideological sparring partner, Seattle Weekly founder David Brewster, has announced his new “online newspaper” Crosscut will launch in March. Already, my Belltown Messenger colleague Alex R. Mayer has his own response to Brewster’s announcement, a lighthearted spoof entitled Crosscoot.

…sort of, of the Ash Wednesday earthquake of 2001. So far, the viaduct’s still up, and Vancouver Island hasn’t been split in two.

Seattle is now involved in the most absurd viaduct debate in American history. And that’s saying a lot. All we need now is for Nickels to don Groucho glasses and Gregoire to don a Chico hat.

…on the station’s online program guide, but my lovely interview about the book Vanishing Seattle is supposed to be on sometime between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on KUOW, 94.9 FM in Seattle and streaming on the Web.

…the same things from the progressives that Drinking Liberally wants–less pomposity, more fun in our revolutionizin’.

Author Marybeth Hamilton claims blues music, from its first appearance on 78 rpm records, has always been a vehicle for white intellectuals and curators to fantasize about the supposed primeval “authenticity” of ethnic folks. And it has continued to be so, on to the recent fad for Paul Simonized “world” music and the thug stereotypes deliberately perpetuated by gangsta rap.

WELL-DUH DEPT. #2: The TV show 24 is produced and written by pro-war Republicans. Who else would so lovingly depict torture as an act of heroism?

…makes #48 in the Guardian’s UK-centric list of “the 50 men who really understand women.” (George Clooney’s #1.)

…has a sincere, heartfelt, kitsch-free memorial to Anna Nicole Smith.

HistoryLink cofounder Walt Crowley has his larynx surgically taken out today. My best wishes to Walt and his dear companion Marie.

I taped a lovely interview yesterday at KUOW, Seattle’s NPR affiliate. You’ll hear me plugging the book Vanishing Seattle when the interview airs, sometime next Thursday, 2/15. I’ll let you know the time when I know it.

AND NOW, THIS OTHER PROMOTIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT: My colleagues at Take Control Books are offering a limited-time offer on a bundle of five ebook guides to Mac software. You can learn how to get the most out of your Mac (and iPod to create, manipulate, and organize music, photos, and personal web pages. But hurry: this offer’s only good for a limited time.

If you’re expecting a comment about how rich people with media-proclaimed perfect bodies can have tragic personal lives, you won’t get one here.

…a few kilos of respect for Presidential candidate John Edwards, now that he’s refused to fire two campaign staffers whose past blog entries had been bashed on right-wing talk radio by the usual “bullies and hypocrites.”

You have nothing to lose but your delays.

…of new-age philosophy evolves ever more passive-aggressive odes to hyper-happy obedience, a Rice U. researcher claims “grumpy workers” make the best employees.