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December 2, 2011
Sen. Patty Murray and Rest of Failed Supercommittee Blame Everyone But Themselves
It's both unfair and inaccurate to call the 12 members of the Congressional Supercommittee "total failures." They're not total failures. In fact, they are succeeding quite admirably in one regard.
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August 19, 2011
This Week in Starbucks Crime: Frappuchino Dream Ends in Uncle's Murder Conviction
Welcome back to another exciting installment of This Week in Starbucks Crime, in which we catalog the bad acts occurring at Starbucks' 16,000-odd worldwide locations over the past seven days, as well as the week's fallout from prior Starbucks-related misdeeds. This week, we do our best to hel ... More >>
Arts
June 22, 2011
The Fussy Eye: Oil and Water
Eco art, courtesy of Deepwater Horizon.
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June 15, 2011
Daniel Beltrá
Eco art, courtesy of Deepwater Horizon.
Blogs
December 14, 2010
Justin Bieber Stampede, BP Oil Spill, Watermelon Backfire Claim Top Spots in FAIL Blog's Top FAILS of 2010 (VIDEOS)
Seattle-based internet humor website FAIL Blog just dropped its "Top FAILS of 2010" last night, and, as might be expected, the videos will instantly both lower your intelligence and raise your self esteem--the mark of good internet comedy. Let's take a peek at the winners (or losers, dependin ... More >>
Blogs
November 11, 2010
Class Action Lawyers Aren't Dead Yet, Says Seattle Lawyer Representing BP Oil Spill Victims
Is the age of the class action lawyer over? That's one suggestion from a Sunday New York Times Magazine piece on the litigation feeding frenzy sparked by the BP Gulf oil spill. While the lawyers have been jostling for position and clients, there's been an effort to marginalize the members of ... More >>
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August 10, 2010
Moonlight Cafe Has the Meatiest Egg Rolls in the Universe
You can expect most vegan cooking to look like it's been frosted with dog shit, just like this cupcake. Moonlight Cafe is notable in the same way that a weird roadside attraction is notable: interesting, sort of, but mostly nobody gives a shit. It's pretty dirty inside. The tabletops feel gu ... More >>
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July 29, 2010
I-Greed: Big Biz Behind 'People's Initiatives'
As noted in this week's SW cover story on the campaigns to privatize state liquor sales, both Initiative 1100 and I-1105 are the result of corporate politics moving into grass roots territory. Three major corporations spent more than $3 million on these "people's initiatives" in hopes of dive ... More >>
Blogs
July 14, 2010
Aw, Shucks: In Wake of BP Spill, Oysters May Be Off Marcela's Menu
In case the endless photos of pelicans plastered in brown muck have escaped your attention, the BP oil spill hasn't been great for living things on the Gulf Coast. But now it's threatening the quality of life in Seattle too. No, we're not talking about oil drifting into Puget Sound. We mean ... More >>
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July 14, 2010
Neil Young
In case the endless photos of pelicans plastered in brown muck have escaped your attention, the BP oil spill hasn't been great for living things on the Gulf Coast. But now it's threatening the quality of life in Seattle too. No, we're not talking about oil drifting into Puget Sound. We mean ... More >>
Music
July 14, 2010
The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows
In case the endless photos of pelicans plastered in brown muck have escaped your attention, the BP oil spill hasn't been great for living things on the Gulf Coast. But now it's threatening the quality of life in Seattle too. No, we're not talking about oil drifting into Puget Sound. We mean ... More >>
Blogs
July 14, 2010
The Vaselines Visit the States, the Summer Concert Business, and Sting Calls Rock's BS
-- Sup Pop: The Vaselines will be supporting their forthcoming album, Sex With An X (Sept. 14), with a U.S. tour that so far is skipping Seattle. But the band's playing Portland on Oct. 24 and Minneapolis on the 27th, so maybe they'll sneak in a stop in the 206. -- Pitchfork: Arcade Fire wil ... More >>
Blogs
July 7, 2010
The BP Board Game That Predicted the Future
For some reason, in 1970 energy company British Petroleum thought that it could replicate the thrills and dangers of offshore oil extraction with a piece of cardboard and some six-sided dice. So forty years before the Gulf oil spill that would make it infamous, BP produced a board game where ... More >>
Blogs
July 2, 2010
Eness Rhymes With...a Character in the Dukes of Hazzard
Check out this delicious profiterole!One of the problems with Eness is that they pronounce it like "penis," or like the name of that one deputy from the Dukes of Hazzard. When I called for a reservation, that's how the guy said it. I should've known it was a bad omen. We started with the ... More >>
Arts
June 30, 2010
The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events
Check out this delicious profiterole!One of the problems with Eness is that they pronounce it like "penis," or like the name of that one deputy from the Dukes of Hazzard. When I called for a reservation, that's how the guy said it. I should've known it was a bad omen. We started with the ... More >>
Diversions
June 30, 2010
A Straightjacket Built for Two
Check out this delicious profiterole!One of the problems with Eness is that they pronounce it like "penis," or like the name of that one deputy from the Dukes of Hazzard. When I called for a reservation, that's how the guy said it. I should've known it was a bad omen. We started with the ... More >>
Blogs
June 21, 2010
The Sarah Palin Factor Draws Demo Blood
In this brave new cyberworld, failed candidate and gubernatorial quitter Sarah Palin believes she has the power to tweet and Facebook fellow conserves into office. They seem to believe she does, too. Spokane Rep. Cathy McMorris Rogers was buoyed when FB'd by the Alaskan political dropout, as ... More >>
Blogs
June 17, 2010
BP Oil Spill: Who Will Mourn the Pancake Fish?
Photo courtesy LSU, via CNNOh, ain't you a pretty little fella...It seems that every journalist in the world is currently racing around the Gulf, desperately trying to snap pictures or shoot video of hard-working volunteers scrubbing BP oil off of nature's cutest critters. Show me some good-h ... More >>
Blogs
June 16, 2010
BP's Gulf Oil Spill Superimposed Over Seattle (Updated)
Last month, when everyone thought that BP's Gulf oil spill was just a minor terrible disaster, we published a post about what the slick might look like superimposed over Seattle. Since then, the original estimates about how much crude is being pumped into the sea have gone up by, say, a facto ... More >>
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June 16, 2010
Kathryn Schulz
Last month, when everyone thought that BP's Gulf oil spill was just a minor terrible disaster, we published a post about what the slick might look like superimposed over Seattle. Since then, the original estimates about how much crude is being pumped into the sea have gone up by, say, a facto ... More >>
Blogs
June 4, 2010
Vets and Greens v. Oil and Shameless Consumerism: Brawl of the Week
This morning, the Seattle Times led the front page with a photo of a pelican struggling in the oily muck formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico. With the BP spill hitting the coast of Florida, members of the Sierra Club and two veterans gathered at Gasworks Parks to insist that the city, county ... More >>
Blogs
May 27, 2010
In Light of Louisiana Spill, Will Dino Rossi Come Out Against His Big Oil Donors?
FacebookWill Rossi go with the greens on offshore drilling, potentially pissing off big donors?In announcing his campaign yesterday, Senate-hopeful Dino Rossi didn't talk about the Louisiana oil spill, which we learned today has surpassed the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster in size. Nor does he of ... More >>
Blogs
May 14, 2010
Gulf Oil Spill Miscalculations Came From Seattle Scientists
Sorry little guy, things are gonna get much worse before they get better.It's probably not easy to calculate exactly how much oil is being spewed when the geyser is hundreds of feet below the water's surface. But it's even harder when you rush and use the wrong formula. Conventional wisdom h ... More >>
Blogs
May 12, 2010
Maria Cantwell, Grilling BP Exec, Shows How to Stick It to the Fat Cats
Senator Maria Cantwell put on one of her best political performances to date yesterday as she grilled BP president and chair Lamar McCay in a Senate committee hearing about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in a Senate committee hearing. With her cool demeanor and sharp questions, noted by the Huffing ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2010
Washington, Too, Is Experiencing BP's Peculiar Approach to Oil Safety
Inspectors found 13 safety violations at BP's Cherry Point refinery, seen above.Given that there is currently a geyser of oil pumping millions and millions of gallons of the company's black gold into the Gulf of Mexico, and that the federal government's plans to expand drilling in the nation' ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2010
Exxon Valdez Reporter On Gulf Oil Spill: Expect Redneck-to-Environmentalist Conversion
Lafayette's newest Sierra Club member.As an environmental reporter for the Seattle Times, William Dietrich was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Now, more than two decades later, he's predicting how things will play out in the years follo ... More >>
News
August 23, 2006
One Crude Dude
With Big Oil reeling from the Prudhoe Bay shutdown, Chuck Hamel can finally say 'I told you so.'
News
January 4, 2006
Strongman of the North
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens is, by his own account, a 'mean, miserable SOB.' He's also a powerful SOB who has effectively become Washington's third senator. He wants to drill in ANWR and see more tankers cruising Puget Sound, but his overreaching may be a godsend for Maria Cantwell in 2006.
News
January 1, 2003
Puget Sound's Rustbuckets
Nearly half the oil tankers plying Washington waters would be banned from Europe for being too old.
News
December 9, 1998
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