In my last column, I joked that with public spending out of control and the piling on of the international bailout bill, economic collapse seems to be the goal of Congress. It is getting harder to joke about such a thing however, as the non-partisan General Accounting Office (GAO) has estimated that the administration's health care plan would actually cost over a trillion dollars. This realit...
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Walter Cronkite, who personified television journalism for more than a generation as anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News," has died. CBS vice president Linda Mason says Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. Friday with his family by his side at his home in New York after a long illness. He was 92. Known for his steady and straightforward delivery, his trim moustache, and his iconic sign-o...
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If your daughter's Barbie doll has been scalped or beheaded and you know her brothers are not to blame this time do not be alarmed. It turns out that when girls outgrow their Barbie dolls, torturing them is commonplace.That's the peculiar conclusion researchers at Great Britain's University of Bath reached after questioning approximately 100 children about their attitudes to a range of products...
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Nick Licata and the rest of the Seattle City Council are making pedestrian safety a top priority. He says he's consulted with the city's ethics commission and follows its directions for keeping city and family concerns separate(Josef Robinson was injured three years ago.)Seattle City Council President Nick Licata, whose stepson was seriously injured on a city street, wants Seattle to become a ...
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This past week, Congress had an opportunity to permanently repeal the death tax by amending the Tax Collection Responsibility Act of 2007 to include language that ends the estate tax forever. This would have been a good provision in an overall bad bill. 212 Democrats were enough to keep this spectre looming on the horizon if the Bush tax cuts are not renewed in 2011. The bill passed without ...
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by Felicity Arbuthnot Global Research, July 20, 2007 Email this article to a friend Print this article Syria's capital, Damascus lays claim to title of the oldest, continuously inhabited city on earth. It has absorbed strangers, or been conquered since time immemorial. From the Amorites, who settled from the Arabian Peninsular in 2000 BC., the Egyptians five hundred years later, then the Hitt...
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By Lee Romney and Scott Gold, Times Staff Writers4:44 PM PDT, March 21, 2007 Inside Atascadero State HospitalTwo Atascadero State Hospital patients have killed themselves and four others have attempted suicide since early February--an alarming spike in such incidents at the Central Coast psychiatric facility that comes as it is rapidly losing key staff to more lucrative jobs in the prison syste...
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OK, so far it seems like a one-off thing, but how incredibly awesome must it have been for Seattle concertgoers to witness 3/4 of Soundgarden reunited onstage together with Tad Doyle this past Tuesday night? (Thanks to fellow twitterer Mark Carrass for alerting me to this. Social networking fucking rules.) Sure, the [...]
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For good or ill, all the music from the 90s is coming back. Sure, the return of Limp Bizkit, Sugar Ray, and that guy from Smash Mouth making a country record isn’t really good news, but at least we’ve got Sunny Day Real Estate and Blur reunions to...
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Seattle's Crocodile Café reopened last weekend after being closed for a little more than a year and last night some of the original stars of the Northwest grunge scene showed up for a surprise performance at Tom Morello's Justice Tour. Seattle P.I....
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