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Willing to Die
I hope Terri Schiavo dies soon. Not that I have anything against Schiavo or her family. Quite the…
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Where it matters
Welcome to the first edition of “Impolitics,” a free-ranging regular column of political opinion and humor that will…
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Media Follies!
For the ninth year, here’s my list of the most overhyped and underreported stories. Given the amount of…
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Cause Caucus
IN LESS THAN a month, on Feb. 7, Washington Democrats will hold caucuses across the state to determine…
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Budgeting for Disaster
NOBODY KNOWS, or has any way of knowing, what sequence of events caused the space shuttle Columbia to…
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A preventable tragedy
The most appalling police news of the week wasn’t the alternately aggressive and nonexistent response to drunken, obnoxious…
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Fear of youth
Another victory in the war on youth: The Speakeasy has been murdered. The news this month that Belltown’s…
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A new kind of radio
The pirates are coming! The Federal Communications Commission’s recent decision to license noncommercial low-power FM or “pirate” radio…
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Tim Eyman: Uncensored, Uncorked, Unapologetic
SEATTLE WEEKLY COLUMNIST Geov Parrish sat down this summer for an in-depth interview with the headline-generating, semi-disgraced initiative…
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Auld Lang Syne.com
Mercifully, there’s been very little this season in the way of millennial retrospectives (“Top sports moments of the…
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The invisible gorilla
GREG NICKELS and Mark Sidran were probably ecstatic, after the Sept. 18 primary, to think that they had…
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White Independence Day
On July 4, while much of the country is celebrating that ancient, radical rant about all men being…
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No sweats
For the last three years, a new protest movement has swept college campuses across the country: the effort…
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Loyal Opposition
On the eve of Ronald Reagan’s death, something remarkable in the world of political progressives was taking place…
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The Office of Marital Influence
I HAVE TO ADMIT, it’s been pretty entertaining to watch the meltdown of the Pentagon’s so-called “Office of…
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Paying for knowledge
You may not have noticed—not many people off campus did. But with the University of Washington’s proposal late…
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The scam that won’t die
The National Missile Defense—the newest name for Star Wars, “the Peace shield,” the “nuclear umbrella,” or “Brilliant Pebbles,”…