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May 25, 2011
Tea Party Patriots Want Idaho's Uber-Christian Take on the Constitution Taught to Kids Nationwide
Constitution Week may be four months away, but it's never too early to try and hone the indoctrination message that the nationwide event will hammer into America's children. First out of the gate are the Tea Party Patriots. The Georgia-based conservative group doesn't want just any Constituti ... More >>
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April 22, 2011
Scott Adams, Dilbert Creator and Own Biggest Fan, Now Stumping for Rich White Ladies
The upside to Dilbert comic strip creator, former Seattleite and rich douchebag Scott Adams becoming the butt of the Internet's joke over his pretending to be his own biggest fan online, is that he's now free to take up the cause of fellow rich douchebags. His first target: Gwyneth Paltrow.
News
March 30, 2011
Small Harvest
Washington's medical-marijuana industry isn't as big as you think.
Blogs
March 24, 2011
Medical-Marijuana Market in Washington State Is Still Relatively Tiny, According to First-of-Its-Kind Report
With dozens of medical-marijuana dispensaries proliferating all around town, authorizing doctors openly advertising their services, and a newly opened cannabis farmers market, it often seems as if the local medical-pot business is going gangbusters. But according to the first methodical analy ... More >>
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March 23, 2011
Tales Of The Future And The Past: Goodbye Slashfood, Hello Digital Girl Scouts
Back in the day, Slashfood was the place for getting the big national food news. It won awards. It got some serious traffic. And it was owned by that avatar of internet-age modernity, AOL. Even back-er in the day (like in 1917), the Girl Scouts turned seasonal retail and door-to-door cookie ... More >>
Arts
March 9, 2011
Opening Nights: Hardball
The birth of the conservative blow-up doll.
News
March 2, 2011
The Anti-TSA Cafe
Is a SeaTac-area restaurant denying service to agents, or is it a hoax?
Blogs
March 2, 2011
Amanda Hocking, 26-Year-Old Kindle Book Phenomenon, Will Soon Make Publishers Obsolete
Amanda Hocking fever is sweeping the nation! How does one purple-haired 26-year-old author rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars without ever being published? Easy. She cuts the middleman and publishes on her own straight to Amazon's Kindle store. That and she writes about vampires. Sexy, ... More >>
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January 28, 2011
Sarah Palin's Citation of Spudnut Shop in Richland, Wash.--a Counter to Obama's SOTU "Sputnik Moment"--Fails on Facts
Anyone lucky enough to catch half-term Gov. Sarah Palin's response to President Obama's State of the Union address on Wednesday was treated to a veritable smorgasbord of knee-slapping zingers, courtesy of the wildly unpopular would-be pol. After droning on about "Obamacare" and "Cap and Tax" ... More >>
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January 28, 2011
Narus, Boeing-Owned Company, Is Helping Egyptian Government's Web Crackdown in Cairo
Egyptian police are pulling out all the stops in their attempts to try and squash the mass uprising of protests sweeping through Cairo right now. And besides the high-pressure water cannons, tear gas, and batons, one of the most potent tools being utilized is a crackdown on Internet use. So w ... More >>
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December 29, 2010
Our Top 10 List Of 2010 Top 10 Food Lists
Thank you FoodNetworkHumor.com for getting us all hot with your great list.Oh baby. Oh baby. Yeah, baby, that's so good. I've got to have some more. Give it to me. That's not dialogue from some porn site, but the ramblings of Food Network superstars. Or, at least that's what I imagine them m ... More >>
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October 27, 2010
Tony Hopfinger, Former Weekly Reporter, Gets Cuffed by Alaska Tea Partier's Goons (Updated)
Trespasser!Update: As usual, the coverup is always worse than the act: The story Tony Hopfinger was after, resulting in his headline-making detention by Joe Miller's goons, has led to the court-ordered release of documents confirming Miller lied to his former employer, leading to even bigger ... More >>
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September 1, 2010
The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events
Trespasser!Update: As usual, the coverup is always worse than the act: The story Tony Hopfinger was after, resulting in his headline-making detention by Joe Miller's goons, has led to the court-ordered release of documents confirming Miller lied to his former employer, leading to even bigger ... More >>
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August 25, 2010
Matthew E. Kahn
Trespasser!Update: As usual, the coverup is always worse than the act: The story Tony Hopfinger was after, resulting in his headline-making detention by Joe Miller's goons, has led to the court-ordered release of documents confirming Miller lied to his former employer, leading to even bigger ... More >>
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August 4, 2010
The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events
Trespasser!Update: As usual, the coverup is always worse than the act: The story Tony Hopfinger was after, resulting in his headline-making detention by Joe Miller's goons, has led to the court-ordered release of documents confirming Miller lied to his former employer, leading to even bigger ... More >>
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July 28, 2010
Catherine Lutz
Trespasser!Update: As usual, the coverup is always worse than the act: The story Tony Hopfinger was after, resulting in his headline-making detention by Joe Miller's goons, has led to the court-ordered release of documents confirming Miller lied to his former employer, leading to even bigger ... More >>
News
July 7, 2010
Rossi's Way With the Jobless
If you're out of work, Dino might not be your best friend.
Blogs
July 6, 2010
Dino Rossi Voted to Cut State Unemployment and Welfare Eligibility
For more than a month now the U.S. Senate has been unable to pass a bill that would allow people who lost their jobs in the recession to continue collecting unemployment for up to 99 weeks rather than the standard 46 weeks. According to Huffington Post, 1.2 million unemployed Americans have s ... More >>
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June 25, 2010
Those Mysterious Army Deaths: An Update
RussellA Seattle Weekly cover story last December about the Camp Liberty, Iraq, massacre of U.S. soldiers by John Russell, a deranged Fort Lewis sergeant, also focused on other puzzling non-combat deaths, including soldiers dying in their sleep. Now Georgia author Cilla McCain and San Diego n ... More >>
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June 22, 2010
The Return of Gourmet (Kinda...)
The good ol' days, kindaI know that some of you still haven't quite gotten over the closure of Gourmet magazine last year. I know that some of you still bleed for that uniquely high/low mix of hardcore food and travel porn that Gourmet provided for most of its 68 year history. I know a lot of ... More >>
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June 16, 2010
The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events
The good ol' days, kindaI know that some of you still haven't quite gotten over the closure of Gourmet magazine last year. I know that some of you still bleed for that uniquely high/low mix of hardcore food and travel porn that Gourmet provided for most of its 68 year history. I know a lot of ... More >>
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June 2, 2010
Laughter Against the Machine
The good ol' days, kindaI know that some of you still haven't quite gotten over the closure of Gourmet magazine last year. I know that some of you still bleed for that uniquely high/low mix of hardcore food and travel porn that Gourmet provided for most of its 68 year history. I know a lot of ... More >>
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May 28, 2010
Getting Stood Up This Summer: Bono, Interpol, Aguilera, and Durst Bail on Scheduled Tours
Thanks for nothing, XtinaThis past week has seen a spew of artists pulling out of their planned summer tours. First Bono cracked up his back and had to go in for emergency surgery, causing U2 to cancel the first leg of their world tour, including their headlining gig at next month's Glastonbu ... More >>
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May 27, 2010
Hipsters Beware: Now You'll Be Drinking For The Man
Pabst Blue Ribbon has long been the frosty-cold beverage of choice for those who style themselves as dork-glasses-wearing, skinny-jeans-sporting, retro-everything-loving irony junkies. It's also been the brew most favored by grandfathers, proud blue-collar factory workers, heavy boozers who h ... More >>
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May 12, 2010
Jaime Herrera Threatens to Render Maria Cantwell and Sarah Palin to the Used Cougar Bin
Thanks to a filing away of his Herrera cozy-up, this old soldier can cancel his Viagra prescription.State Rep. Jaime Herrera is locked in a tight race for the Republican nomination to vie for outgoing Congressman Brian Baird's Third District seat in Southwest Washington. A former basketball p ... More >>
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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 >>
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April 9, 2010
Military to Boot Fast Food from Afghan Bases, Return Soldiers to 21st Century
There's been a lot of reporting over the past few days on U.S. and NATO efforts to boot various fast food restaurants from the big military bases in Afghanistan. According to the Christian Science Monitor, "[Kandahar Air Base] in southern Afghanistan is NATO's largest in the country and the m ... More >>
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February 22, 2010
Maria Cantwell Gets More Enthusiastic Press For Standing Up to Big Banks, Seeks Additional Bailout Money for Small Ones
The "startling jab of her finger" recently experienced by a Seattle Times reporter was kept in tight check during this Cantwell speech.As we've previously noted, Maria Cantwell's efforts to bring Wall Street institutions to heel has elicited cheers from such likely quarters as the Huffington ... More >>
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February 15, 2010
John Tuttle Launches Online Assault on Banks and Credit Cards
"Granny," star of three videos posted on creditcardrevolt.com, takes a large sticky note declaring "Stand Up to the Rich Bankers" and slaps it onto a Bank of America ATM. She turns to the camera: "I've never posted a flyer in my entire life," she announces. "It's my first time, that makes me a fly ... More >>
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January 21, 2010
Maria Cantwell May Lose Title of "Sexiest Senator"
Maria Cantwell is but the latest heart broken by Scott Brown.Scott Brown's upset victory in Massachusetts may have some political observers thinking that Sen. Patty Murray is doomed come November. But its had an even more devastating impact on Murray's junior colleague in Washington.
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November 30, 2009
Don't Cry for Norm Stamper
Stamper lives on an idyllic Orcas Island retreatThe 10-year anniversary of the WTO meeting in Seattle brings inevitable reflections on the career of then Police Chief Norm Stamper. The typical story line, repeated in the Seattle Times yesterday and today, is that the disastrous affair led Sta ... More >>
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November 19, 2009
Washington Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell Tepid About Health Care Bill; at Least They're Not Ben Nelson
Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson makes Washingtonians thankful they don't live further East.As Joel Connelly at the P-I tells it, Washington Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell are just "mild about Harry" Reid's new $849 billion, 10-year health care reform plan that the Senate Majority Leader unvei ... More >>
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November 5, 2009
The Food Section: American Wine Prices Plummet, BPA Found in Most Canned Food
The New Yorker runs a profile of LA Weekly restaurant critic and Pulitzer Prize winner Jonathan Gold, a man who drives 20,000 miles a year and consumes obscene quantities of food hunting down LA's most interesting things to eat. (You have to be a subscriber to read it online, so pick up a cop ... More >>
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October 20, 2009
K'naan Blogs About Trendy Charity
Is it cool if I call K'naan a genius? His nearly flawless Troubadour album released early this year demonstrated both razor-sharp lyrical skills and acute global consciousness: unlike other rappers who handle social issues with a transparent righteousness that indicates a total absence of liv ... More >>
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October 13, 2009
Huffington Post Asks: Is Hutchison Washington's Sarah Palin?
Susan like me? Oh yeah, you betcha.Well, sort of. Both their careers were jump-started thanks to their looks; beauty queen for one, newscaster for the other. But Bellevue psychologist, author and former evangelical Valerie Tarico tells Huffington Post that the comparison holds water for reaso ... More >>
Blogs
October 7, 2009
Study Says: Seattle Dumber than Massholes
This guy just bought 10 copies of Glenn Beck's latest book. In the eyes of the Huffington Post, that qualifies him for MENSA membership.The good news: Thanks to the super-scientific folks at Huffington Post, Seattle now has bragging rights on 48 of the 55 biggest metropolitan areas. (Eat THAT ... More >>
Blogs
August 26, 2009
The Food Section: Fresh Fruit, Canning Across America, and Other Warm Fuzzy News
Because Voracious has been feeling mighty cranky all week, this week's news roundup is devoted to stories that warm our hearts. First off, the Seattle Times has two interesting articles: Linda Mapes writes that while European honeybees, the species most used by farmers to pollinate, are still dy ... More >>
Blogs
June 26, 2009
HuffPo Names Cantwell "Sexiest Senator"
My former boss, Maria Cantwell, is a lot of things, some good, some bad. One of the good things, at least according to 40,000 readers who responded to a Huffington Post poll, is that she's sexy as hell. Sexier, in fact, than any senator, male or female, in all the land. Sexier, even, than MacKenzie ... More >>
Blogs
June 18, 2009
Seattle Oscar Nominee in Trouble in Iran
Northwest filmmaker James Longley received an Academy Award nomination for his 2006 documentary Iraq in Fragments, which he rather courageously filmed during the early stages of the Iraq War. Now he's turned his camera to Iran, as he reports in the Huffington Post. Longley was detained by police in ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2009
Tea Party Post Mortem
Here's the deal. For whatever reason conservatives just don't protest. You don't see them marching down the street, chaining themselves to trees or buildings and screaming incoherently into megaphones at the top of their lungs. This is one of the reasons why yesterday's Tea Party protests have garn ... More >>
Blogs
January 19, 2009
Frank Blethen's Alright Once in a While
Seattle Times owner Frank Blethen has driven me insane for years--what with the dog shooting, crypto-right-wing, entirely suburban editorial board, and manipulative anti-estate tax crusading (the nadir of which was the Times' decision to endorse George W. Bush in 2000 for reasons of "integrity and c ... More >>
Blogs
November 5, 2008
We Did It: Dispatch from Columbia City
Seattle Times owner Frank Blethen has driven me insane for years--what with the dog shooting, crypto-right-wing, entirely suburban editorial board, and manipulative anti-estate tax crusading (the nadir of which was the Times' decision to endorse George W. Bush in 2000 for reasons of "integrity and c ... More >>
Blogs
October 30, 2008
Print Still Matters to Would-Be Terrorists
Seattle Times owner Frank Blethen has driven me insane for years--what with the dog shooting, crypto-right-wing, entirely suburban editorial board, and manipulative anti-estate tax crusading (the nadir of which was the Times' decision to endorse George W. Bush in 2000 for reasons of "integrity and c ... More >>
Blogs
April 25, 2008
Exclusive Interview: Margaret Cho
Seattle Times owner Frank Blethen has driven me insane for years--what with the dog shooting, crypto-right-wing, entirely suburban editorial board, and manipulative anti-estate tax crusading (the nadir of which was the Times' decision to endorse George W. Bush in 2000 for reasons of "integrity and c ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2008
Recipe Plagiarism, Celebrity Wines, and Other Food News
Seattle Times owner Frank Blethen has driven me insane for years--what with the dog shooting, crypto-right-wing, entirely suburban editorial board, and manipulative anti-estate tax crusading (the nadir of which was the Times' decision to endorse George W. Bush in 2000 for reasons of "integrity and c ... More >>
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January 23, 2008
Shel-Shocked at Lynne's Springfield Smooth-Out
Seattle Times owner Frank Blethen has driven me insane for years--what with the dog shooting, crypto-right-wing, entirely suburban editorial board, and manipulative anti-estate tax crusading (the nadir of which was the Times' decision to endorse George W. Bush in 2000 for reasons of "integrity and c ... More >>
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October 17, 2007
Susan Faludi
Examining 9/11’s effects
Arts
September 6, 2006
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
Despite the loss of rent control, Nora Ephron will surive.
News
May 17, 2006
Huffington Puffington Post
Also: the coldest ticket in town, and a taxpayer-financed state spectacle.
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