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Foreign correspondence
IN THE IMPERIAL heyday of London’s Fleet Street papers, a train wreck was said to be worth reporting…
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He was not following orders
Here we go again. In the wake of Buford O. Furrow Jr.’s California shooting spree, the Church of…
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Greed is dumb
Just when you think the stratosphere’s the limit on rents in this boomland, check out the latest survey…
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Blockbusted
The bad blood keeps flowing over the Seattle International Film Festival‘s taking sponsorship money from the giant Blockbuster…
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Tipping the messenger
WHAT DO WE ink-stained and cybershocked wretches crave almost as much as money? “Impact”—reassurance that our words not…
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Call waiting . . . and waiting
Twice lately I’ve had the same weird experience—once on the sidewalk on Broadway and once in a Safeway…
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Lessons of 1868
So, congressional Republicans have searched the Constitution and their souls and voted, to a man and woman, to…
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Weird enough, but not true
Sorry folks, it is too good to be true. I mean, of course, that outrageous-sounding quote from the…
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Drug (warrior) reform
A cop-turned-legislator joins Olympia's growing movement for drug treatment and sentencing sanity.
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The sky is falling! Again!
Those who pay attention know that journalistic math is usually an oxymoron; only police estimates of drug “street…
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The Myths and Myopia of Lewis and Clark
These first ugly Americans bequeathed hubris, self-righteousness, and double standards.
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A worm in the works
Could disasters loom as more and more pipeline operators switch to Windows NT?
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Objects of desire
Our consumer culture says, 'Follow your heart,' and Mary Kay LeTourneau did. Oops.
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School spirit
I’ve gotta differ with my distinguished colleagues who’ve assailed the canonization of the late Seattle Schools super John…
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Medium and massacre
THERE WAS AN EERIE parallel between medium and massacre. The mightiest military machine in history can do nearly…
