I’ve been meaning to comment on David Brewster’s post-election analysis over at Crosscut — “A bad election for moderates” — but I just can’t work up the energy necessary to read it through a second time. So rather than a thorough, line-by-line fisking, I’d mostly just like to focus [...]
With Senator Lincoln's agreement resulting in the magic number of sixty, the Senate's version of the health care reform bill will proceed to debate—a key step.
This version, like the House bill that passed earlier, contains a public option. The senate's bill allows states to opt-out of the public [...]
We have several poetry readings, several boat-type readings, and a book about looking at Puget Sound like an artist today. Then there are the book events we are actually going to hear about. To wit:
Friends of the Library is hosting a Mini-Book Sale today at Magnuson [...]
The Battle Continues: The Senate votes on whether to begin debate on health care reform today. Democrats were close to reaching the 60 vote threshhold last night. Every fucking Republican still pledged to vote against it.
Shooting on Capitol Hill: A man was shot in the chest last night, [...]
Pap Attack: Teabaggers and Boomers don’t matter.
Headzup: Glenn Beck and the Nutters:
Liz on a Dick Cheney run for 2012.
Jon does VP Joe Biden (via Leftinabotie).
Once again…Bill-O the Clown doubles up as Worst Person in the World!
Teabaggers get punk’d (via HorsesAss).
Papantonio and [...]
(Courtesy of Fake Ted van Dyk)
Why am I drinking Mike McGinn’s wine? Because he was out of beer.
Yeah, sure, I didn’t actually work for McGinn, and in fact, I voted for Mayor Nickels in the primary. But I gave McGinn my vote in the general election, [...]
Visit our film page for all your wide release needs, including Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, The Blind Side, Planet 51, and more.
Plus, Charles Mudede explores the New Italian Cinema Festival at SIFF Cinema, and I review the [...]
On NPR's On the Media. (The Stranger's story about the project is here.)
Paul Mullin accompanies this announcement with his usual broadside.
There’s a stereotype about Seattle, and especially its artists, and even more especially its theatre aritists, that we have an inferiority complex. We have trouble believing that [...]
JoanJeffryThe foundation isn't yet listing this year's winners on its site, but our 2009 Stranger Genius is now a 2009 Joan Mitchell winner, too. He gets $25,000. Here are last year's winners.
A man was just sentenced to 11 years in prison for beating his wife—with her consent.
Timothy Thompson, a former news reporter for Portland radio station KXL, will have 11 years and 6 months in prison to think about the severity of what he did to his wife Susan and [...]
Maybe this is really dumb question, but... would it be possible to save a piece of the Viaduct as a park/outdoor concert and performance venue? Kind of like the High Line in NYC? It could start at Seneca—walk out of the Seattle Art Museum and take a stroll to [...]
…via Steve Benen… Sen. Tom Coburn, a right-wing Republican from Oklahoma, is apparently not above callous opportunism.So, there's a right-wing Republican that is above callous opportunism? See, I always thought right-wing Republicanism was callous opportunism.
For Strangercrombie, we asked six local artists to donate one-of-a-kind piñatas—but we had no idea they would do it up like this. The piñatas are starting to come into the office today, and they are Seriously. Freaking. Amazing.
Here's a sneak peek at one of them, [...]
The Corner of Sweet and Bitter at Open SatelliteThis morning the video artist Meiro Koizumi got on a plane with his wife Yuka and went back home to Japan after having spent two months [...]
At last night's Post-Election Analysis forum sponsored by Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles, Governor Chris Gregoire announced that, unlike last year, she expects there to be at least some new revenue to soften the expected cuts to balance the $2.6 budget deficit. Political operative Nigel Herbig tweeted this from the event:
At [...]
After only a few weeks in Alaska, I'm convinced of one fact: If Sarah Palin is a racist, it wasn't from her childhood in Wasilla. (What am I doing in Alaska? This.) By most measures, the Anchorage area is more ethnically diverse and integrated than most places I've' [...]
This is pretty delicious...
I guess the Noblesville, Indiana Going Rogue book signing didn’t go very well yesterday because 300* or so of the 1000 people with wristbands were asked not to tread on Sarah Palin and then she tried to make a getaway with Baby Trig and several duffel [...]
Is this the future of the internet?
The British government has brought down its long-awaited Digital Economy Bill, and it's perfectly useless and terrible. It consists almost entirely of penalties for people who do things that upset the entertainment industry (including the "three-strikes" rule that allows your entire family [...]
Sure they do. But why do they hang low? And why don't they hang lower? Why isn't your scrotum bright red? Why doesn't your scrotum have feathers? Science has the answer.
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' [...]I met a guy about two months ago through weird and serendipitous circumstances on my last visit back home to Tucson and he's great in so many ways. We get along really well, have a lot of common interests, his friends and family that I've met so far I like' [...]
Is the subject of a profile in the NYT... travel section? The article doesn't say much about Seattle theater except that it exists, it includes/ed people like Bart Sher, Kurt Beattie, et al.
Also: "Offbeat delights abound."
In the "offbeat" category:
Teatro ZinZanni, for instance, offers a five-course meal and a European-style' [...]
Vote-by-mail advocates have long argued that the system increases voter participation, particularly in traditionally low-turnout off-year elections, and this recent general election certainly doesn’t provide any evidence to the contrary. Indeed, when compared to other cities, Seattle’s off-year turnout is simply off the charts.
HA comment thread regular N in Seattle, [...]
Move over risky-business-underwear-girls. Little Channing's about to out-viral your asses...
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"I AM A FISH AND I LUV BOOBZ"Hello, dudes and dude-enthusiasts. The dudes of Broken Lizard are in town for a live show at the Moore tonight, and while they're at it they're doing a little promotion for [...]
JeanineAnderson / Stranger FlickrThanks, Fish Fry!
It's back, tonight and every third Friday of the month forever and ever!
Free fries and $2 Fat Tire pints: Happy hour is especially happy this evening from 5 to 7 p.m. at Pike Street Fish Fry and [...]
All the people who rail against Republicans in general and Sarah Palin specifically for ignoring the facts (about abstinence-only education, about global warming and industrial pollution) should take a deep breath and actually read the science about breast-cancer screening.
The articles from the United States Preventive Services Task Force, published in [...]
On the eve of a big senate vote to open debate on health insurance reform, Washington Senator Patty Murray explains the stakes:
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[...]What in tarnation motivated Seattle Police to descend on Ballard last night with dozens of officers, hostage negotiators armed with bullhorns, and a SWAT team? “This was a high-risk search warrant,” says SPD Sergeant Sean Whitcomb. “A person had barricaded themselves in and that requires a lot of personnel [...]
Film
'Stingray Sam'The American Astronaut is the world's best space-Western movie musical. A black-and-white masterpiece, the movie is like Jules Verne with a rock 'n' roll soundtrack, where space is filled with roughnecks and kooks, and men and women are segregated to their own planets. Cory [...]
Learn how to make your turkey look just like this one!For the past couple of days some fantastic local culinary experts (including Tamara Murphy of Brasa/Elliott Bay Cafe, Quill Teal-Sullivan of Oddfellows, and Jamie Boudreau of [...]
The latest installment of The Daily Show's Gaywatch. You will cheer.
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There are maritime-based readings, there are self-help readings, there are landscape painting-type readings, and there are celebrity chef readings, too. And then there are three readings I'm going to tell you about.
Barbara Kingsolver is at Third Place Books tonight. The Lacuna is her first novel in a' [...]
Spoiler alert: Here's a photo of the postmodern driving-range experience. Yes!
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[...]I'm with flat top here. Colby pretty much sucks as far as robots go. He doesn't even know what games are, and all he does is make up songs about scripture. Boooring! Flat top says: "Who ever heard of have a computer for a friend?" Agreed, especially if it's Colby.
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Listening to KUOW's Weekday just now, on which Governor Christine Gregoire is talking about the dramatic cuts that are going to be needed to deal with the state's $2.6 billion budget shortfall. Among the programs she says are on chopping block: Basic Health.
Host Steve Scher asked Gregoire [...]
Today is the International Transgender Day of Remembrance. Here's a heartbreaking video list of 2009's Trans deaths around the world.
Here are the International Transgender Day of Remembrance Day events planned today in Seattle, at the University of Washington:
“Die-In” rally (12:00-12:30) Red Square meet at noon by the obelisk [...]
The newly male Chaz Bono makes his debut on Good Morning America...
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[...]According to Publicola, Gov. Chris Gregoire told a Seattle audience last night that she would not accept an all-cuts budget in 2010… a 180-degree turnaround from her position heading into the difficult 2009 legislative session. What’s changed her mind?
Well, obviously, the $2.6 billion projected revenue shortfall is nearly impossible [...]
At least a hundred people have forwarded me a link to this story, suggesting it for Slog since it has so many hilarious details. A morbidly obese man in South Carolina who couldn't get out of the recliner in his living room, his wife of two years who cleaned' [...]
BBC reports:
Riot police in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, pushed back a violent demonstration near the Algerian embassy in the early hours of Friday.
Egyptian protesters reportedly hurled firebombs at police protecting the embassy and overturned a police van.
Egypt's Interior Ministry said 35 people were injured.
The clashes stem from [...]
16 Killed, 23 Injured: A suicide bomber hit a busy city square in western Afghanistan.
No More Oprah: Oprah Winfrey will end her talk show after 25 years.
And Sadder Still: A man has been charged with raping and killing the five-year-old North Carolina girl. Her mother's still being [...]
In a November 6th interview, Sky News Australia’s David Speers spent about 35 minutes with the CEO of NewsCorp, Rupert [...]
Dominic Holden reports at 7:39 pm by phone:
Dozens of police officers have shut down Leary Way between Ballard and Fremont and have surrounded a business that two witnesses say may be a "chop shop" where stolen cars are converted or modified so they are not identifiable. There [...]
It’s not surprising, but the overwrought nature of this editorial in The Columbian is easily ascertained by reading the first sentence.
The tax-increase snake is not exactly back on the state’s budget table, but it has slithered under the door and is coiling its way up a table leg.
It goes [...]
"Good morning," the Prayer Warrior began today at the Microsoft annual shareholders' meeting. "We have been here many times together..."
Yes, we have.
This time the Prayer Warrior—aka Ken Hutcherson—had shown up to demand more transparency about the company's charitable donations, and to warn the leaders of Microsoft that supporting gay [...]
I wish I had a video of Anne Mathern doing Deep Purple's Highway Star last night because it was sublime. But almost as sublime was her version, during Eric Fredericksen's karaoke lecture Speak and Sing at On the Boards, of Nirvana's In Bloom.
Other humans who amazed: Ross Lambert channelingbeing Mick [...]
The term seems apt for the apparent majority of Republicans who believe that ACORN stole the 2008 election for Barack Obama.
Seriously. The original poll results are here:
Q5 Do you think that Barack Obama legitimately won the Presidential election last year, or do you think that ACORN stole [...]
Remember: American men don't do art unless it involves naked ladies, unless the men have thin shoulders. I hate you, Garrison Keillor.
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' [...]With only a smattering of ballots left to count statewide, it is interesting to note that Seattle voters have thus far turned out a 57.56% rate, four and a half points higher than the county as a whole, and nearly seven points higher than the state average.
To put that in [...]
Here are some recent news items:
- Remember the big push a few years back after the Terri Schiavo mess to encourage people to have a living will for such situations? If you were one of the people who did that, make sure you avoid Catholic health care institutions as [...]
The final season of Lost begins February 2 with a recap show then a two-hour season premiere.
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[...]Oprah Winfrey is expected to announce September 9th, 2011 as the final air date for her long-time running talk show, "The Oprah Winfrey Show." It's unclear what reasons are prompting Oprah to end production of her show, or if the show will move to the newly-formed Oprah Winfrey Network [...]
The mountain is in the distance, the museum is on the left in the [...]
SEATTLE - A window washer plunged eight stories down the side of a building Thursday in downtown Seattle, but was stopped by a safety rope just inches before hitting the ground, officials and witnesses said.
Seattle Fire Department spokeswoman Dana Vander Houwen said the rope saved the man's life by catching [...]
Unbelievable...
Sarah Palin is rolling her "Going Rogue" book tour into Fort Hood, the site of the Nov. 5 shooting that left 13 dead and dozens wounded.
"I'm especially looking forward to meeting our brave men and women in uniform at Fort Hood," Palin, 45, wrote on her Facebook page.
Remember how anti-Mormon, anti-Christian hate crimes totally skyrocketed in California after Prop 8 because gays and lesbians are so angry and violent and hateful and intolerant? LA Times:
Los Angeles County saw an overall 4% drop in hate crimes last year, while crimes against gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people [...]
From Hanna Arendt's Introduction to Politics: "...Thaumadzein [is] the wonder at that which is as it is.. As far as philosophy is concerned, if it is true it begins with wonder, with thaumadzein." With that in mind, and it should never leave the mind, watch this YouTube video, which' [...]
"I think your response to No Figuring Women this week was dead on," writes Slog tipper Jim. "But some recent research by Melissa Burkley of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater may suggest something else is at play."
A new study provides evidence for what many have long suspected: [...]
In honor of Rev. Ken Hutcherson's speech at this morning's Microsoft stockholders meeting, here's a column The Stranger published on the occasion of Hutch's previous Microsoft speechifying.
(Bigger print version here.)
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Confrontation at the BridgeThere's a room full of bodies on the third floor of Seattle Art Museum. It's a party in honor of Jacob Lawrence. The show is called Freeing the Figure, and it looks at three of his paintings in the context [...]
So Rita (Marcalo, a British modern dancer) is going to stop taking her meds and try to have a seizure onstage.
The project is called "Involuntary Dances" and some British epilepsy-advocacy groups are pissed, saying the stunt/dance/whatever trivializes the condition.
I'm only surprised choreographers haven't stepped up to argue that [...]
Since Ticket/Ticket closed, Seattle's been without a half-price ticket distributor for theater, opera, ballet, etc. But a California-based company called Goldstar will set up shop here in a couple of weeks and bring back the half-priced ticket.
How it works: Venues allocate a number of tickets for Goldstar (since shows [...]
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Dear Prayer Warrior,
This morning I spoke at the Microsoft stockholders meeting. Chris Liddell, CFO; Bill Gates, Chairman; Steve Ballmer, CEO; and Brad Smith, General Council were there. I talked about their Charitable Giving in support of gay marriage and the intolerance that [...]
She's Left. She's right. She rocks.
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