We just got an e-mail from the Cantwell people telling us that Maria Cantwell will be making floor speech at 7 pm EST on the topic of "health care reform."
Ladies and gentlemen, start your C-Span 2.
UPDATE: It's over! You can find more on the senators from Washington state and' [...]
The Republicans were hoping to have ACORNs roasting in an open fire this holiday season. Alas, there is no evidence of illegal activity:
The controversial community organizing group Acorn has not broken any laws in the last five years, according to a Congrssional [sic] Research Service report released Tuesday evening.
The [...]
Citizens whose passion is keeping McMansions out of the meadows cheered last week, when the Washington Supreme Court seemed to rule in their favor in a major growth-management case. On second reading, some of the anti-sprawl advocates are wondering if the cheering was premature.
The ruling, in a case [...]
The Washington Secratary of State's office thinks it's possible:
New Census projections show that we’re on the move in Washington — people moving in from other states and folks having babies. In the past decade, we’ve grown by 13 percent and are now the 13th largest state.
We’ve grown by [...]
NASA/Jesse AllenMayon: Ready to blow. (Click to Enlarge)
Says NASA:
Mayon Volcano, The Phillipines
Tens of thousands of people living within the danger zone of Mayon Volcano in the Philippines were forced to evacuate to emergency shelters in mid-December 2009 as small [...]
Rhubarb is a tasty treat and a hardy garden dweller.
In my unflagging efforts to spread warmth and holiday cheer, I give you this list of everyday foods that can cause much misery and death.
You know deadly things like, rhubarb, potatoes and water. So before you take another helping of deep-fried [...]
1)Author and screenwriter Michael Tolkin has an unfortunate essay in the L.A. Times about how the current trend of zombies, vampires, werewolves, and wizards in young adult novels and movies is about the political environment around us. He says that the wizards who elected Barack Obama are surrounded by [...]
What you said to She Wants A Tanning in this week's column was right on, but I'd suggest a step further. Spanking isn't a particularly exotic fetish and it should be easy to talk someone who's the least bit GGG into it. Since you identified self-esteem as SWAT's big [...]
There are now at least seven state Attorney's General who are challenging the Constitutionality of the way Democrat Sen. Harry Reid bought votes for his Health Care bill. Specifically they are...
So, I got the bulk of my Christmas shopping done early this year, and instead of sipping cocoa and smiling serenely, I'm super stressed.
Why?
Because when you live in a houseful of snoopy kids you have to get very creative about where to hide their gifts. This year I must have' [...]
"A long lost brother, your future best friend, maybe an unknown soul mate. Actually I'm not quite sure. I know he is a big Minnesota Viking fan, was a professional huckleberry picker for a short time and has been involved in the logging industry off and on for'" [...]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, center, accompanied by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd, left, and others, speaks during a Democratic health care rally Tuesday on Capitol Hill in Washington. Associated Press photos
WASHINGTON – Americans will feel the pain before the gain from the health care overhaul Democrats are [...]
A pair of shoppers, who did not want to be identified, sit on a bench Monday at the CambridgeSide Galleria mall in Cambridge, Mass. Associated Press photos
As someone who doesn't like shopping or shopping malls, I concur with most of this list which includes:
The retail employee who cheerfully wants' [...]
Tom Stoppard is the modern king of remarkable moments, and ACT's fall production of Rock 'n' Roll capitalized on many, the most loaded occurring toward the end of the play. Czech hero Jan (Matthew Floyd Miller) has returned to England on an errand. It's now 1990 and the ... [...]
There's no city-clogging traffic jam in Nine, the musicalized version of Federico Fellini's movie-about-moviemaking urtext 8½, but the result feels like the celluloid equivalent of a 12-car pileup. An assault on the senses from every conceivable direction... [...]
Too much is never enough for fashion designer-turned-filmmaker Tom Ford, whose debut feature flaunts its capital-A Artiness the way some Napoleonic gym rats flaunt their overdeveloped musculature. Unlike his fellow art-house Michael Bays—Julie Taymor, Julian Schnabel, and B... [...]
Spice addicts are a strange species, celebrating a food's ability to cause pain while chasing an endorphin rush that's accompanied only by sweat, tears, and colon spasms. When talking about their meals, hotheads sound more like marathoners than gourmands.
They h... [...]
Female chefs who ply their trade in college fraternities are an atypical breed. Rarer still are chefs of any gender who adhere to a code of culinary ethics that involves cooking everything from scratch, shunning industrial producers, and using fresh, local ingredients whenever po... [...]
Talbot Tagora
Wednesday, December 23
The problem with covering someone else's song—in this case, Talbot Tagora's superbly murky, sexed-up cover of Elastica's '90s staple "Connection"—is that its familiarity will inspire in your audiences a wave of either sticky, warm nosta...' [...]
Dear Uptight Seattleite,
I know you've covered the topic of Northwest fashion before, but there's still one thing I'd like you to explain: Where do all the men here get their pants in that sort of brownish color that's too drab to even be called a color, usually pai... [...]
