Over on Crosscut, Daniel Jack Chasan asks the question: “Are super-majorities in the legislature unconstitutional?”
Simple answer: of course they are… except for, you know, those super-majorities specifically prescribed within the constitution.
Think about it. Washington state’s constitution mandates a two-thirds legislative super-majority to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot, [...]
Corporatocracy, Joe Bageant and why President Obama cannot fix anything until things get more broken. Here is some white trash talk:
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Idaho voters will be required to provide photo identification or sign an affidavit that they are who they before they are given a ballot at polling places under a proposal introduced Tuesday by House Majority Leader Mike Moyle, R-Star. The bill, which was printed by the House State Affairs Committee, [...]
That hard-boiled egg and piece of toast that I had for breakfast doesn't seem to be as filling now that I realize this is Denney's Free Grand Slam Breakfast Day. I could take a break for 90 minutes or so to get re-filled. But I don't know if you'd put' [...]
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin addresses attendees at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville on Saturday. On her hand appears to be handwritten notes. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)
Question: What do you use to stay on track when you're giving a speech or presentation -- teleprompter, cue cards, writing on your' [...]
The halftime remembrance ceremony was put together by the NIC American Indian Student Alliance and the coaching staff. The Rose Creek Drummers did an Honor Song before Stensgar spoke of Tim Wolfe and what a remarkable young man he was. Tim Clark, AISA vice president and longtime [...]
It is difficult, as a reasonably intelligent female, to see an unreasonably unintelligent female—Sarah Palin— skyrocketed to a national platform and be taken somewhat seriously. Especially when reading articles like this, via TPM:
Citing a column by Pat Buchanan that clearly argues against conflict with Iran, Sarah Palin on Sunday [...]
After feeding two million grateful Americans who took advantage of the offer, Denny's is doing it again. That's today-- Tuesday, February 9th from 6 a.m. through 2 p.m. at participating restaurants. We already checked in with a Denny's restaurant in Spokane Valley and it was jam-packed! Our reporter [...]
...to build new urban parks, can we please start making plans to build—and then actually build—a skatepark in one of these new parks? People who live on Capitol Hill who skateboard—and people who live on Capitol Hill whose, ahem, children skateboard—don't have a goddamn skatepark. Capitol Hill is the' [...]
Steve McMullin, 56, of Twin Falls, Idaho, one of the 10 Americans who were arrested while trying to bus children out of Haiti without proper documents or government permission, is escorted by a Haitian police officer upon his arrival to the court building in Port-au-Prince, Monday. Five of the ten [...]
WellPoint pays its CEO $10 million a year, and spent over $9.5 million last year lobbying against health care reform. And now with reform all but dead, the company is intent on enjoying the fruit of its labors, hiking premiums on its 800,000 individual policy holders in California by [...]
According to Phaedrus, Mary Souza of OpenCDA.com/CHRG has declared as successful the fund-raising effort for losing candidate Jim Brannon last night at the Greenbriar Inn. In the comments section, Phaedrus quotes Souza from 9:07 last night on Coeur d'Alene Press online comment section as saying that the' [...]
Toyota Motor Corp. Managing Officer Hiroyuki Yokoyama, right, bows after submitting the company's formal recall notice for its 2010 Prius gas-electric hybrid and two other hybrid models to Ryuji Masuno, director general of the Road Transport Bureau of the Transport Ministry, at the ministry in Tokyo Tuesday. Toyota is recalling [...]
Bloomberg:
Feb. 9 — South African construction stocks were raised to “neutral” from “underweight” at JPMorgan Chase & Co., which cited “compelling” valuations.
“The South Africa construction sector has significantly underperformed the equity-market recovery since March 2009 and we believe that the cycle for the sector is at, or [...]
Don Sausser returned with the first review of the new HBO Grub Club pick: Nosworthy. Here's the start to Don's review: "With the cook out of town this week and the Nalley's Chili cans running low what a wonderful time to fulfill the HBO requirement to dine at" [...]
The initial hype has subsided, but Eastern Washington University’s decision to replace the natural grass in Woodward Field with a red synthetic playing surface continues to stir interest and conversations across the country. Since the school first announced late last month that former Eagle Michael Roos and his wife, [...]
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[...]A Month in Rubble: Haitian man rescued four weeks after earthquake.
Fatal Pain at the Pump: 50-something Seattle man shot dead behind the wheel of his truck at a First Hill gas station.
Mystery Fumes: Wenatchee woman left disabled after weird U.S. Airways flight.
Oy Vey: Mumps outbreak hits [...]
Except, probably, by Gertrude Stein...and actually maybe many others. And yet.
Picasso is coming to SAM. In the fall.
That's fine.
It's no big deal.
JK! Whenever Picasso paintings travel in groups of 75, it counts. However, this is all coming from the Paris Picasso Museum, which doesn't have the ones you can't think [...]
We supported the mayor with gusto, and despite some howls of criticism that he's botched this or that, he's only been in office for 39 days. Judging his performance as mayor after this blip of time would be absurd. That said, Jesus hominy in my pozole this man holds a [...]
One of six First Hill streetcar alignments, click to enlarge
Posted by news intern Sarah Anne Lloyd
The First Hill Streetcar is coming, and the first of three community open houses this year is today at 4:00 p.m. Just in time, the [...]
From right now until 2 p.m., Denny's is giving a free Grand Slam breakfast to everyone in America patient enough to wait in a very long line for a free Grand Slam breakfast at Denny's.
David Schmader went and experienced the bounty last February:
Flowing past slowly but steadily was a [...]
And then there is the billboard with George Bush saying , “Miss me yet?” Apparently, the group behind this is not known.
Obviously it’s a liberal/progressive/Democratic group.
Isn’t it?
[...]It's election day: do you know where your ballot is? Did it go out with the recycling? Replacing it might be a whole lot easier than you think.
It turns out that our shift to all-mail voting also includes an element of email convenience. For anyone who has lost his or [...]
This is your Stranger Slog Absolut Interior Illusions Joanna Fabrics Olive Garden open thread, people! And may the best commenter... WIN! My only comment this week: we spend so much time with the girls as boys in the workroom that I can't tell who's who when they're girls.
Discuss.
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Sometimes I wish that we didn’t have all of the modern technology that we enjoy. When I was a very young boy we didn’t have a television – at least not that I can remember for a long time. We had radio and LP recordings. We had books, and we [...]
You may have been following the battle between STITA taxi, which has bought exclusive rights to pick up fares at Sea-Tac Airport, and the Port of Seattle. In the latest round of bidding for the contract, Yellow Cab offered the port more money, nudging out STITA (which formed a nonprofit [...]
My boyfriend and I have agreed to abide by whatever decision you make. Resolve this dispute for us.
We've been together for nine months. We are gay. Neither of us is hung up on monogamy so that's not the issue. We live in a college town. We both found jobs here' [...]
The Who, led by rock legends Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey, transformed the Bridgestone Super Bowl Halftime Show into the most exciting 12 minutes in rock and sport, Sunday evening on CBS, unleashing a riveting live halftime performance at Super Bowl XLIV. The band's exhilarating set electrified [...]
New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton holds up the Vince Lombardi Trophy as he leaves the airport Monday in Kenner, La., after the Saints returned from the NFL football Super Bowl. The Saints defeated the Indianapolis Colts 31-17, attaining their first championship in franchise history. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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That is said in a whiny, double syllable wail. O, Mo-om!!! After I have done something, anything to embarrass my poor sons. Now that they have become well into their 30s, I don’t hear it at all, but when they were teens and young adults, it seemed to [...]
Thx.
(I can never thank Melissa and Meags enough for this link.)
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[...]Laura Silsby, 40, of Meridian, one of the 10 Americans who were arrested while trying to bus children out of Haiti without proper documents or government permission, is escorted by a Haitian police officer upon her arrival to the court building in Port-au-Prince on Monday. Five of the ten Americans were [...]
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What's the book? How to Get Divorced by 30: My Misguided Attempt at a Starter Marriage by Sascha Rothchild.
Why is it useless? It's a memoir (adapted from an L.A. Weekly article) about the author's first marriage, which was a failure. I guess it's supposed to be amusing, [...]
A new poll released today by Moore Information shows that Democrats who voted for House Bill 3508 in the 2009 legislative session are in serious trouble. According to the poll, 61% of those asked...
Rep. John Murtha, who died today at 77, was head of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee—that's the body in charge of the $700 billion budget for the Pentagon.
Who's next in line for the post? Washington Democrat Norm Dicks, whose district includes the Bremerton Naval Station.
It's not a [...]
A Seattle artist named Aaron Gustafson today announces he is "FIRST TO TAKE LARGE-FORMAT PHOTOGRAPHS WHILE IN FREEFALL."
Seattle-based artist Aaron Gustafson recently completed a series of large-format landscape photographs that he shot while freefalling through the skies of New York and Washington State. He [...]
After Idaho hosted the Special Olympics World Winter Games last year, Sen. Les Bock (pictured), D-Boise, said he was startled when reading through an Idaho statute to see outmoded terminology like “mentally retarded,” “mentally deficient” and even “lunatic” and “idiot.” Bock said, “I think it made all of [...]
Meet Matthew Cooke, a Stranger reader who has vowed to do everything The Stranger suggests for the entire month of February. Look for his reports daily on Slog. —Eds.
Before I start, I’m tempted to apologize for certain aspects of the last post covering the reading on Saturday. [...]
Robert UllmanPosted by news intern Sarah Anne Lloyd.
A couple of weeks ago, I reported on the Vision Line, the proposed Sound Transit East Link Light Rail alignment that would run along I-405, bypassing the heart of downtown Bellevue. It was the brain child of developer and [...]
NPR talks about a Minnesota billboard that shows George W. Bush smiling and waving in his moronically folksy way with the words "MISS ME YET?" in large yellow letters next to the photo. Bob Collins at Minnesota Public Radio is trying to figure out who [...]
I love used books. I love to go to used book stores wherever I visit. I love St. Vinnies book section in CdA. I love to dig deep at the bottom of a shelf and find some title nobody else knew was there. I especially love used book [...]
Amazon quietly reinstated buy buttons for Macmillan titles over the weekend, meaning that the retailer has lost its battle to keep Kindle prices at $9.99.
Now Tele-Read has a larger post about the future of the Kindle.
For example, about a wi-fi-only Kindle that would be cheaper because it did [...]
Frank Griffin and his wife Loretta of Asheville, N.C., laugh during a news conference in Raleigh, N.C., Monday after claiming their Powerball jackpot winnings of $141 million. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)
Question: Aren't you happy for the lucky couple?
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I'm beginning to understand Palin's immense popularity. I see a woman who is just enough politician to be canny. I see a woman who has taken her lumps and has come to realize she isn't quite where she needs to be to have the credibility to run for [...]
"What good and affordable vet would you recommend in Seattle?"
So far Madison Park Vet has gotten a nod. Is there another vet in the city that deserves some praise? Tell Questionland!
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