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“Washington businesses break ties to industrial-food chain”

I can’t remember the last time that I truly experienced fabulous journalism in The Seattle Times, but here it is. Rebekah Denn details the story of a local energy bar maker who finds how difficult it is to control his product in, to borrow Denn’s vernacular, the industrial-food chain. After salmonella contamination was found in [...]

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Quote for the day

I’m often interrogated about being vegetarian (e.g., “What if you find out that carrots feel pain, too? Then what’ll you eat?”).
I’ve also been afraid to feel as if I know better than someone else — a historically dangerous stance (I’m often reminded that “Hitler was a vegetarian, too, you know”). But this book reminded me [...]

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Can LOL Cats save Seattlepi?

Nearly seven months ago the Seattle Post Intelligencer newspaper converted to an online-only news source. So how’s that going? Judging by the fact that they’re looking to LOL cats to save the day, I’d say not so good.
Today seattlepi.com begins to feature content from the blockbuster site, where site users both submit the funny photos [...]

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Bye bye gourmet

I am very saddened to hear that Conde Nast is getting rid of Gourmet magazine. I have so many favorite recipes from Gourmet. Some of my favorites include tarte tatin, chicken liver mousse and fondue. I used to get both Bon Appetit and Gourmet.
While the recipes in Bon Appetit were always nice, the writing in [...]

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Headline of the day

As long as we’re using a deadly pandemic disease to describe prostitutes, it might behoove us to acknowledge that the headline could also very well be “Aurora ‘plagued with johns’” or “Aurora ‘plagued’ with men wanting to pay for sex.” These women wouldn’t be there without paying customers.
As an aside, I think Seattlepi.com has been [...]

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The globalization of censorship

Here’s an article on Slate to completely depress you. I’m so glad we have our freedoms.

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More information than I needed on Fathers Day

Here is a very strange op-ed in the L.A. Times. A man writes a tribute to his now dead father. His father is responsible for his son being able to walk.
He then tells us how he watched his father die when he came upon his dad and another woman having sex on the kitchen floor [...]

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More fury directed at ESPN over Sounders match

I would maybe have added some expletives, but this guy is pissed off too.

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ESPN Sucks

I spent a very interesting evening at a pub watching the fucking College World Series of baseball with teams Arkansas and Virginia. Why? Because ESPN has purchased exclusive rights to broadcast the Seattle Sounders games for the rest of the soccer season yet that purchasing decision did not lead them to make any other changes [...]

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Interesting photo on CNN

A picture is worth a thousand words.

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Quote for the day

For all the mockery over empathy, look at what happens to right-wing figures in those rare cases when they become personally affected by the ideology they advocate.  They quickly abandon it.  Dick Cheney objects to the injustice of gay inequality because his daughter is burdened by it.  Nancy Reagan deviates from social conservative dogma to [...]

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Headline of the day

This is a beauty. Via ThinkProgress.

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Headline of the day

BEDFORD, Ohio — An Ohio man who argued with his grown son over a messy bedroom says he overreacted when he called 911.
Ahhh, memories of my youth. Granted I wasn’t an adult like this guy in the story, but I remember being 16 and having to knock through the kitty door in order to get [...]

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One-line understated commentaries on the latest headlines

Great, the people with the most incentive to not have children can actually control whether or not they have children.

I’m getting the idea that national security had nothing to do with opposing the release of these memos; they were trying to save their asses.

Umm, yeah. Couldn’t have said it better.

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Lord what fools these mortals be

more about “LOON WATCH: Right-wing bets against U…“, posted with vodpod

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Reading Essense for the first time

I picked up a copy of the magazine Essense because Michelle Obama and her mother Marian Robinson were on the cover. I’m really impressed with this magazine. I’m not really sure what the non-ethnic specific magazine’s counterpart would be, but it’d definately not Vogue, Cosmopolitan or Vanity Fair. Maybe Womens World? I can’t say because [...]

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Shepherd Fairey fights back

And quite convincingly. If you’ve been riveted by the story of the artist who created the iconic Obama hope portrait who is now being sued by the Associated Press then you need to see this. There is a PDF link on the this web site which takes you to the counterclaim prepared by Fairey’s lawyers. [...]

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The lessons of Columbine

I’m not generally a person who reads true crime books, but I am very tempted to purchase this book about Columbine.
The first lesson is really one that we have unlearned, which is that there actually isn’t a distinct psychological profile of the school killer. Pre-Columbine, teachers, parents, journalists, and the general public were pretty clear [...]

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It’s mental illness

With the recent trend of senseless massacres in the U.S. (seven in the past month according to AP), the MSNBC headline reads “Experts: Many motives drive mass murder.”
Mass murderers are as different as their killing field — be it a nursing home or a suburban home — and as diverse as their reasons for killing [...]

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For Gods sake enough with circumcision

Circumcision should be routinely considered as a way to reduce the risk of sexually transmitted infections, argue US experts.
They spoke out after research found circumcision significantly cut the risk of infection with herpes and the cancer-causing human papillomavirus.
Circumcision is known to sharply reduce the risk of HIV infection.
But the study, featured in the New England [...]

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Barack Obama’s Final Four

A few selections were revealed on Tuesday. Initially an underdog for the nation’s highest office, the president went with favorites in his Final Four picks. No. 1 seeds Louisville, North Carolina and Pittsburgh will join No. 2 Memphis in Detroit April 4-6 if the president is correct.
More including a video at ESPN.

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Of jobs, layoffs and H1B visas

Layoffs
This week several people were laid off at my work. I was spared. While I would like to think that it is because I am a good skilled worker and that my company would be unable to do without me, I know that that is not entirely true. There was to be certain an element [...]

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What I hate about print journalism

Here’s an article in the Seattle PI about a proposed tunnel as a replacement to an elevated highway that currently exists.
The caption on the picture.
The tunnel option to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct would have two lanes in each direction and would extend from approximately South Royal Brougham Way to Harrison Street. This scenario also [...]

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All the cat links you could ever want

Sarah Hepola’s article The Internet is full of kittens has just about every link imaginable for cute cat stuff. I learned about Japanese television shows that dress up cats, cats that run on a treadmill and even the unthinkable: cats that look like Hitler. Hepola explains:
But it’s those skittish, unpredictable qualities that made them screwball [...]

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