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The New Missing
ST:Jennifer Lynn Blackstock, 17, was last seen on Thursday at about 11 p.m., according to a news release from the Police Department. Blackstock's family said she left her Edmonds home without permission. \'It is concerning that Jennifer left without money or personal belongings for an extended leave,\' the news release said. \'Furthermore, it does not appear ... read more →
6 days 12 hours agoFox News Claims All Top 10 Cable News Shows
The Huffingotn Post reports this morning that the top 11 shows on cable news are all Fox News products. Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck own the three leading spots, in that order, which helps explain the genocide of intellectual thought at last weekend's Glenn Beck rally in Washington, D.C. \'The channel averaged 1,821,000 viewers in prime time ... read more →
6 days 12 hours agoDid Megan McArdle Read Sex At Dawn?
Apparently not: But still, every party has the red-faced, humorless, easily-offended type. Yesterday, at The Atlantic web site, Megan McArdle provided a stellar example. Her comments begin strangely, with the admission that she's \'in the middle\' of the book. Note the urgency to condemn it publicly, even before reading the damned thing! And boy, does she ... read more →
6 days 12 hours agoMorning Blend: Stumptown's Copy
DeaPeaJay/Flickr Oh, Stumptown. I do not believe for a moment that this Guatemala Finca El Injertocoffee I’m about to sip is going to taste like flower-candy-nut-fruit-tea, but (aside from needing a little capitalization/comma help) your copywriter sure does a stellar job.Fragrance of jasmine evolves into flavors of dutch chocolate, roasted almonds, meyer ... read more →
6 days 13 hours agoTwo Famous Russian Aristocrats: One is Well-Bred, the Other Ill-Bred
The ill-bred aristocrat is, of course, the greatest novelist in the English langauge, Nabokov:There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity. A better bred person would never hold such a terrible, childish, utterly backward opinion of precisely what ... read more →
6 days 13 hours agoGood Morning and Barf
Here are some photos of big, gross foods. Number two, which actually looks good—unlike the horrifying trifle (#1) and the massive, lumpy pile of nachos (#7), and #10, and #11, and most of the rest of it—is from our own hometown Lunchbox Laboratory (click through for L.L.'s ca-razy background story). The giant omelette (#4) is likewise from the venerable ... read more →
6 days 13 hours agoChurchill on Socialized Medicine
That Churchill quote about appeasement from the current issue of the New Yorker was good—good and awkward for conservatives—but this Churchill quote about the creation of Britain's National Health Service is just as good and more awkward for all those Churchill-worshiping conservatives out there: This faith in government as the essential caretaker led him ... read more →
6 days 13 hours agoMorning News: Presidential Hat Tricks, Virtual Girlfriends, and Drug-Dealing Barbie
A Native American Wood Carver with \'Love\' Tattooed On His Hand: More details on the man fatally shot by a police officer Monday. Mission Accomplished Over: President Obama declares an end to our mission in Iraq; adds that he intends to pull troops out of the war in Afghanistan next summer. Gunning for a Hat Trick: On top of peacefully ending our occupation ... read more →
6 days 13 hours agoActivists Outraged at Proposal for Cutting Old Trees
R.B. Go hug a tree Some Seattle residents say that a proposal (.pdf) from the city’s Department of Planning and Development to update tree protection codes on private property would only strip large, rare trees off whatever protection they currently have. But DPD contends that the current rules are no longer working. The department is acting on a 2009 ... read more →
6 days 14 hours agoSPD Calls for Eyewitnesses to Come Forward in Yesterday's Shooting Fatality
The Seattle Police Department offered a firmer time line of the events that led to the fatal shooting of a 50-year-old man on Boren Avenue by Officer Ian Birk—a two-year veteran of the department—but few details on what led to the fatality or if it could have been prevented, in the end, called on potential witnesses to come forward with more details to help ... read more →
1 week 3 hours agoTo Die in a Chimney
This must be one of the worst ways to die: A doctor involved in an \'on-again, off-again\' relationship apparently tried to force her way into her boyfriend's home by sliding down the chimney, police said Tuesday. Her decomposing body was found there three days later. Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac, 49, first tried to get into the house with a shovel, then climbed a ... read more →
1 week 3 hours agoChase Whiteside, Awesome
Chase Whiteside is the guy in those recent videos prompting Tea Party zombies to hang themselves in their own inarticulate nooses. His questions are brilliantly simple stumpers (for the FOX News crowd), his blog is excellently smart, and he's a single queer (but don't bug him about that—he gets more offers than he wants). [ Subscribe to the comments ... read more →
1 week 3 hours agoHe Just Said What Eli Just Said He Was Going to Say
The president's speech is streaming live here. UPDATE: Awkward at first, emphasis landing in strange places, but then toward the end he seemed to be getting subtly emotional, and said, \'Our troops are the steel in our ship of state.\' Not bad. Not bad at all. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
1 week 3 hours ago"The American combat mission in Iraq has ended."
That's what President Obama will say in his Oval Office address tonight. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
1 week 4 hours ago500,000 A Little Less Than a Hundred Thousand Glenn Beck Fans Can't Be Wrong
All of these people gathered in Washington D.C. on Sunday, and they had not one single fact between them: [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
1 week 6 hours agoCity Commits $30,000 to Homeless Shelter Program SHARE
Today, the city pledged to commit $30,000 over the next four months to the Seattle Housing and Resource Effort (SHARE), a shelter group that provides beds for Seattle's homeless, after the group announced earlier this month that it would have to close 11 of 15 shelters in Seattle due to lack of funds. But the funds come with stipulations: SHARE must keep ... read more →
1 week 6 hours agoGOP: Iraq War Was a Success
Because it is what it is, I can offer no comment for this:Washington (CNN) — In twin speeches laced with heavy doses of \'I-told-you-so,\' Republican leaders in the House and Senate tried to convince voters Tuesday that America's success in Iraq is not because of President Barack Obama, but in spite of him. \'Some leaders who opposed, criticized, and fought ... read more →
1 week 6 hours agoPoll: Income Tax Meaure and Eyman Initiative Both in the Lead
SurveyUSA released a poll today that shows Initiative 1098, which would create an income tax for people making over $200,000 a year, has 41 percent of voters certain that they will vote yes and 33 percent certain they will vote no. The rest are undecided. Republicans oppose the measure by a two-to-one margin. Obviously, this lead is small and could easily ... read more →
1 week 6 hours agoBudget Cuts Hampering Student Progress, Says Dorn
If you listened to our State Superintendent Randy Dorn announce the yearly state and federal student progress reports this morning, you’d be shit scared to put your child in public school: More than $1 billion has been cut from the state’s public education system, while there have also been cuts to after-school programs, cuts to boys and girls programs, cuts ... read more →
1 week 6 hours agoToday Is Freedom Day
If you have been anywhere near a newsstand for the last couple of weeks (or if you've tried to read certain cluttered, anxious websites), you probably know that Jonathan Franzen's new novel, Freedom, has been looming on the horizon. Well, the wait is over: The Corrections follow-up is officially on sale today. Stop by your favorite bookstore and pick it up ... read more →
1 week 7 hours agoDept. of Justice Claims Drug Case Wasn't Political
When federal prosecutors asked a judge this morning to sentence Canadian activist Marc Emery to a five prison sentence for trafficking marijuana seeds, they made an unconvincing claim: that this isn't about politics. Here's an excerpt from the memorandum that Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Greenberg submitted today to a federal judge in Seattle (.pdf): The ... read more →
1 week 7 hours agoMike Nipper Discovers Himself!
Through \'dream mapping.\' [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
1 week 7 hours agoSL Letter of the Day: Predator and Prey
A few nights ago I got drunk and knocked on my roommate's door and confessed my attraction to him while he was lying in bed in nothing more than his skivvies. (It was dark and I stayed at the door so I didn't know that until after the fact.) And then I asked him if I could sleep in his room because our other roommate—whose bedroom is directly above mine—was ... read more →
1 week 7 hours agoGlenn Beckwatch: The Beckington Post
On the heels of the \'success\' of Glenn Beck's 8/28 rally, Beck has launched a conservative Huffington Post called The Blaze. (This gets confusing when you remember that the Huffington Post was intended to be a liberal response to The Drudge Report, but commenters on The Blaze's debut post seem to be eager to ditch Drudge and find a new source of online ... read more →
1 week 7 hours agoFlickr Photo of the Day
I know, I know. BUT. Posted to The Stranger's Flickr pool by Invisible Hour. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
1 week 7 hours agoFlickr Photo of the Day
I know, I know. BUT. Posted to The Stranger's Flickr pool by Invisible Hour. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
1 week 8 hours agoDenny Heck: Mad Enough?
He's running to be the next Democratic Congressman from Washington's 3rd Congressional District, which has the highest unemployment in the state, so he'd better be a bit angry and frustrated if he wants to match the feelings of his constituents. Hence, Heck's latest television commercial, titled simply: \'Mad.\' [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
1 week 8 hours agoGet Your Paintings of the Viaduct Before It Comes Down
Marie Gagnon has an opening at the 619 Western building this Thursday during art walk. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
1 week 8 hours agoDo You Know This Man?
Photo taken by unlucky lady at Denny Park As KIRO reports, he likes to stand around naked and wanking in front of 11-year-olds in Denny Park, where he was photographed by one of his victims. Full story here. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
1 week 8 hours agoFocus On Killing Some Members of Your Family
Bullied gay teenagers are killing themselves and the good loud Christians at Focus on the Family want to make sure nothing changes. They bully gay teenagers to death and then point to high suicide rates among gay and lesbian teenagers as evidence that our \'lifestyle\' is destructive. Every dead gay teenager is a win for them. It's time to speak up, ... read more →
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