An interview with Noam Chomsky.
TO GET AN IDEA of just how wretched a job newly nominated Utah Gov. Michael Leavitt would do if confirmed…
One of the regrettable realities of Olympia in the post-I-695 panic is that none of the state’s other pressing business…
Inauguration Day in DC brings out tens of thousands of protesters, but does it matter?
It was a week of dispiriting, unimaginative peace protests in Seattle.
THEY CAME IN BUSES, on trains, in car caravans. They took off their shoes at the airports (if they weren’t…
The health care industry trumps the insurance commissioner.
I got married on Nov. 2, 1981. It was a sham. Oh, not entirely. We were young and more or…
For years, City Attorney Mark Sidran has been the most reviled elected official in Seattle. Among progressives, his negative ratings…
AS READERS may have noticed, the Seattle Mariners baseball team did pretty well last year. (Right up until they lost,…
BY THE TIME you read this, Congress may have already given President Bush the vote he craves as further justification…
When terror struck, Americans turned to religion for guidance and strength. Then what?
THE ALMIGHTY could not have set a better theater piece. It was still in the cool morning of a hot,…
LET’S GET TO the heart of the matter: I did not, at any time, get a wheelbarrow full of little…
In Houston, the trials of former top Enron executives are unfolding. Former CEO Jeffrey Skilling is, according to legal experts…
The clock is now ticking on the state Legislature’s 100 or so days in session—the mad rush during which the…
LAST THURSDAY, the faithful gathered once again by the fences of the U.S. Navy’s submarine base at Bangor, where the…
Last week, a new billboard went up across the street from the Washington State Convention Center. On it, our good…
Time to stop second-guessing the monorail.
“So now I’m told that while my illness was recently described as terminal, I can, perhaps, be saved. . . . I’m left with one of those too-simple questions: How much is the extension of a life worth? The answer, we learn from childhood: It depends. It depends on who I am. It depends on the accidental geography of my birth. It depends on how much wealth I have accumulated, how many friends I have, who they are. It depends a lot on dumb luck. . . .”
—”On Being Terminally Ill,” from Typing Love Letters to Create Time, a book I self-published in April 1991
