And you thought tuna and swordfish were toxic mercury bombs? Next time in Tokyo, avoid the whale and dolphin sashimi—creepy delicacies that Japan insists on… Continue reading
The surest way to get credit is to claim it, and who's better at that than Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society? Their… Continue reading
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic," said Stalin, who understood such things too well. Likewise whale deaths. When the… Continue reading
The transit workers who sued last week to overturn Initiative 695 won't be the last to go to court. Holders of soon-to-be-downgraded state and local… Continue reading
What is the effect of the relationships between the Coast Guard's top brass and the shipping industry?
Woodland Park stumbles on the way to a more entertainment-oriented makeover.
While the state, feds, and shippers wrestle over how to prevent an oil-spill catastrophe, a stopgap "windfall" solution appears.
Everyone wants to put a tag on 1999, but what can you say about a year in which an empty-headed, nose-abusing drunken frat boy-turned-smarmy Bible… Continue reading
Whoever heard of a government body saying, "No, don't give us the money, here's something better to spend it on"? But that's just what the… Continue reading
Every time someone talks about how great SoDo—er, Safeco—Field looks, Iremember Thomas Carlyle, the cantankerous Scottish author of "The Everlasting No," and the dowager who… Continue reading