Yes, I don’t live in King County or Seattle at the moment, but I have spent nearly half my life ’round those parts. I am not going to get too original here, but I have noted that the folks over at Seattle Transit Blog have made the same choices for the Seattle City Mayor & [...]
I have been thinking a lot about the health care “debate” that has been going on in this country lately. The most significant part of the debate is not IF we need health care reform, but how to do it, and just how soon it can happen. In my opinion, this is one of the [...]
On Tuesday, the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8, the November referendum that took the right to marry away from California gays and lesbians. As a small consolation, they did not invalidate the legal marriages of around 11,000 couples that were already married. Proponents had based their support of the taking of rights from their [...]
After eight years of President George W Bush and his unwillingness to admit any kind of mistake, I was getting used to the fact that perhaps our leaders were al so set in their ways that they could admit no wrong. Bush would rather have seen the country dissolve into a mess than admit a [...]
In the US, we are fascinated with the private lives of our elected officials. It is probably healthy that we have a curiosity in such matters. When this curiosity becomes the means with which we try to drive those officials out of office, it becomes a serious problem. This problem has come up again, this [...]
As we approach the time where Barack Obama finally gets to step up to the presidency, it is with joy that an era has ended, and joy that a new era is beginning. We are ending a time where the stage was set for economic and social failure. Indeed, we now have the opportunity to [...]
I have reached a point in my life where I am starting to subtract my age from my expected lifespan. It’s not that I feel so old. It is more that it is striking me just how far technology has come in the first 46 years of my life. Then I look like a kid [...]
In the United States, our citizens pride themselves on the constitutional rights that they enjoy. We hold up the Bill of Rights as a symbol of how people everywhere should live. We are colloquially known as “The Land of the Free”. We “hold these rights to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” We [...]
Another general Election Day is over. We have spent the last several months rooting one way or the other on a number of candidate races and ballot measures. We do it in a way similar to the way we root for our local sports teams to win, only in this race, we have to live [...]
We know that many people around Cascadia and around the US are losing their jobs. We blame that on the recession. We also know that the price of oil is very high. Sure, it is a lot less now than it was a month ago. We all know that one way or the other, those [...]
