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A reprieve for Microsoft
Anti-WTO activists have backed off from their ambitious plans to blockade Microsoft on February 7. Instead, the groups…
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Our Obsession
Three years since, and America’s obsession with 9/11 shows no signs of abating. Sure, we’re not obsessed in…
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Impolitics
In theory, Seattle’s new Office of Professional Accountability could function as a check upon the worst of the…
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An FBI symposium
“On Thursday, October 25, at the Seattle Fur Exchange Bid Room in Renton, from 8 am to 4:30pm,…
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The Kids and City Hall
Seattle’s schools are in trouble, and the vultures are circling. Sure, there are the usual chronic problems: low…
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Living with terror
MY COUNTRY went crazy last week. Based on what is known so far, the odds that any single…
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Comrade John
“THE SOVIET OF Washington”—that was the nickname used sarcastically by Postmaster General James Farley in 1940 to belittle…
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Sustain the Objection
So far, preventing the lifetime appointment of Harriet Miers to the U.S. Supreme Court has been primarily a…
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What the Fuss Was About
THERE WAS THE ordinary, obligatory plastic name badge, the kind that plagues every trade convention. But there was…
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HoodWinks
Someone very wise (my colleague James Bush) wrote, at the height of Charlie Chong’s glory circa 1996, that…
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After the War Starts
The whole world is marching. American activists love to abuse the rhetorical device of the “International Day of…
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Politics
I spent a fair amount of time last week watching and listening to the testimony before the independent…
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Coming home
MY EXTREMELY significant other teaches and therefore has each summer off. So every year we take two or…
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Szwaja for Congress!
Joe Szwaja has broken the silence of local progressives and thrown his hat in the ring against Seattle’s…
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Bigotry as law
Four years ago the Republicans ran for governor a candidate, Ellen Craswell, who believed that homosexuals should be…
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Judging a Doctor
AS REGULAR READERS might know, my bleeding heart tendencies are so pronounced that I’m positively anemic. Doctors avoid…
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The Cult of George
As the inevitable Cabinet shuffle unfolds for the second term, one unifying characteristic seems to be an unwavering…